Jim Burnell's CCD Images - M104 Clicking on the image will display a high-resolution view.

 

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.

 

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.

 

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.