M100 Widefield

22:26 25/2/2006 UTC

While the actual target was M100 and its latest Supernova I was surprised how many faint fuzzies there were in the image. M100 is the brightest member of the massive Virgo cluster of galaxies. I also made an overlay map of the field identifying the objects at least somehow visible in the image. I did have severe problems with noise and light pollution in this image, so the dimmest galaxies are really dim in this image also. Take a look at the original resolution image which has original aspect ratio also. The original version here is 2x scaled down from the master image from the camera (too big for a web page).

NGC/IC Object List:
NGC4192 galaxy RA:12h13m47.8 Dec:+14°53m'58" BMag:10.9, M 98
NGC4254 galaxy RA:12h18m49.3 Dec:+14°25m'03" BMag:10.4, M 99
NGC4321 galaxy RA:12h22m54.9 Dec:+15°49m'22" BMag:10.1, M 100