M98

Posted by dcrowson
on Friday, March 23, 2018

M98 (NGC 4192, UGC 7231 and numerous others) is an intermedia spiral galaxy located approximately 44.4 million light-years away in Coma Berenices. The scattered light from the left (east) is from the magnitude 5 star * 6 Com (HIP 59819).

NGC 4186 (UGC 7240 and others) is the brown spiral at the bottom left.

UGC 7223 is the other round spiral to the right with PGC 38989 above it next to the star.

This field also has several quasars, the dimmest with a magnitude in Simbad is 19.63 (V).

Luminance – 24x600s – 240 minutes – binned 1x1
RGB – 10x300s – 50 minutes each – binned 2x2

390 minutes total exposure – 6 hours 30 minutes

Imaged February 8th, 9th and 21st, 2018 from Dark Sky New Mexico at Rancho Hidalgo (Animas, New Mexico) with a SBIG STF-8300M on an Astro-Tech AT12RCT at f/8 2432mm.

LRGB - https://www.flickr.com/photos/dcrowson/40964665501/sizes/l

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