Jim Burnell's CCD Images - M85
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M85
Object: M85 (NGC4382)
Elliptical Galaxy
Const.: Coma Berenices
Camera: HX916 Scope: Vixen R200SS Mount: Losmandy Titan
Filter(s): IR block Exposure: 36x30s TeleVue Paracorr
The galaxy M85 and its neigbor NGC4394 in Coma Berenices. A stack of 36 thirty second exposures using a Vixen R200SS 8" f/4 Newtonian with a coma corrector. 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.