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Photographer:
Rod Pommier
Location of Photo:
Pommier Observatory, Portland, OR, USA
Date/Time of photo:
2021-04-11 through 2021-04-14
Equipment:
Celestron Compustar C14 with Starizona LF reducer/corrector (f/7.5), SBIG STL 11000M CCD with Baader Planetarium LRGB filters, SBIG AO-L adaptive optics at 8 Hz
Description:
M98 is an intermediate-barred spiral galaxy lying 44 million high-years from Earth in the constellation Coma Berenices. It may have interacted with the M99, the Little Pinwheel Galaxy in Coma Berenices about 750 million years ago. It is a galaxy that is actually blue shifted because it is heading toward us at a velocity of 140 km/second. Exposures: L:R:G:B =110:65:65:65 minutes = 5 hours, 5 minutes total exposure at f/8.3.
