M64
Coma Berenices 12H 56m  21° 41'
Magnitude: 8.5
Size: 10' × 5.4'
Distance: 13.5 million light-years
Best Month: May

Source: The Messier Objects

Image
Meade 8" SN LXD75
Meade Deep Sky Imager Pro

60 minutes luminance
(120 × 30-second exposures)
10 minutes per channel RGB
(20 × 30-second exposures)

Average transparency; 57°
1 June 2005
10:53 PM EDT
Cambridge, MA