Messier 88 or M88 (also designated NGC 4501) is a spiral galaxy in the constellation Coma Berenices. It has an apparent visual magnitude of 9.6 and its angular diameter is 7x4 arc-minutes. M88 lies at an estimated distance of 60 million light years. The Equinox 2000 coordinates are RA= ...
In the meantime, here is a wide-field sketch that I made of M104 the other night when I got out for a brief session. Seeing was steady, transparency left something to be desired. I did spend quite a lot of time enjoying this ghostly galaxy with it's sharp black bisecting line as it...
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