Deep Sky Object in Spring
M59 & M60 (Galaxies in Virgo)


Date & Time: Apr 28 2017, from 21:48 to 22:21 JST(+0900)
Composed 12 shots with 3 minutes exposed
Optical: Meade 25cm(10") Schmidt-Cassegrain with conversion lens (f=1600mm, F6.3)
Auto-guided with Meade LX200 Equatorial & Pictor 201XT
Digital Camera: Nikon D810A
Location: Ooizumi, Hokuto city, Yamanashi pref.

Camera Settings: Recording Format...14bit CCD-RAW, converted to 16bit TIFF(4080×4080)
Device Size...20×20mm
Sensitivity...ISO6400, White Balance...Daylight


M59 (NGC4621) / Galaxy, type E3
R.A.12h 42m 2.5s (2000.0)
Dec.+11° 38' 49" (2000.0)
Apparent Size2.7×1.6'
Radial Velocity+751km/s
Magnitude9.6
Distance52 million light yrs.
Group of GalaxiesVirgo Cluster
Other IDsUGC7858, MCG2-32-183
PGC42628
M60 (NGC4649) / Galaxy, type E1
R.A.12h 43m 40.2s (2000.0)
Dec.+11° 32' 58" (2000.0)
Apparent Size2.0×1.8'
Radial Velocity+1452km/s
Magnitude8.9
Distance54 million light yrs.
Group of GalaxiesVirgo Cluster
Other IDsUGC5322, MCG12-10-11,
PGC28655
These galaxies are positioned at the most eastern region of the Virgo Cluster in all member galaxies with Messier's numbers. You can catch these galaxies as two dimmed lights around five degrees west of epsilon Virginis. Galaxies on the right and left hand sides are M59 and M60 respectively. And M60 has small companion spiral galaxy of NGC4647 just north west of it. Both galaxies are simple elliptic, so they show you only nebula like images, and it can be realized that M59 is a bit stretched in north-south direction.



M58
M61

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