I love side-on and almost-side-on galaxies look - for some reason it shows off their vastness to me. This was my first real test image using the Celestron Starsense Auto Guider with my Celestron CGEM equatorial mount. Worked flawlessly - super easy calibration and the guiding is spot-on. It was very easy to connect to my Celestron C8 SCT, with a single cable running down into the mount. Using the CPWI software, also from Celestron, the whole system feels integrated and clean.
With an apparent magnitude of 8, the Sombrero galaxy is beyond the limit of naked-eye visibility but can be spotted through small telescopes most easily during May. M104 is located 28 million light-years away in the constellation Virgo, and with a mass equal to 800 billion suns, it is one of the most massive objects in the Virgo galaxy cluster. M104 was discovered in 1781 by the French astronomer and comet hunter Pierre Méchain, one of Charles Messier’s colleagues.
Image Details:
- Imaging Scope: Celestron C8 SCT
- Imaging Camera: ZWO ASI183MC Color with ZWO IR cut filter
- Guider: Celestron Starsense Autoguider
- Mount: Celestron CGEM
- Acquisition Software: Sharpcap
- Guiding Software: Celestron
- Light Frames: 25*4 mins @ 100 Gain, Temp -20C
- Dark Frames: 25*4 mins
- Stacked in Deep Sky Stacker
- Processed in PixInsight, Adobe Lightroom, and Topaz Denoise AI
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