Jim Burnell's CCD Images - M104
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M104 - The Sombrero Galaxy in Virgo
Object: M104 (NGC4594)
Edge-on Spiral Galaxy
Const.: Virgo
Camera: SXV-H9 Scope: Vixen R200SS Mount: Losmandy Titan
Filter(s): IR block Exposure: 17x4m TeleVue Paracorr
The Sombrero Galaxy M104 in Virgo. This image is a stack of 17 four minute exposures using an SXV-H9 CCD camera on a Vixen R200SS 8" f/4 Newtonian equipped with a Paracorr. The exposures were calibrated, defect-corrected and stacked using AIP4WIN. This image has been resampled down from its original size of 1392x1040.
 
M104 - The Sombrero
Object: M104 (NGC4594)
Edge-on Spiral Galaxy
Const.: Virgo
Camera: HX916 Scope: AP130 Mount: AP1200GTO
Filter(s): IR block Exposure: 17x60s blank
The Sombrero galaxy M104 in Virgo. A stack of 17 one minute exposures using a 5" f/6 refractor. The image was calibrated and stacked, and a simple linear stretch was performed using AIP4WIN. This image has been resampled down from its original size of 1300x1030.
 
M104
Object: M104 (NGC4594)
Edge-on Spiral Galaxy
Const.: Virgo
Camera: HX916 Scope: C14 @ f/6.3 Mount: AP1200GTO
Filter(s): IR block Exposure: 16x45s blank
The Sombrero Galaxy M104 in Virgo. This image is a stack of sixteen 45 second exposures taken with a 14" SCT equipped with an f/6.3 focal reducer. Ten iterations of Richardson-Lucy deconvolution and a Gaussian histogram shaping were applied using AIP4WIN.