Amateur images of M104

Taken by amateurs of the Sternfreunde Breisgau e.V. at the

Schauinslandsternwarte with their new CCD camera on a Celestron 11.

Contributed by Peter Suetterlin

from the CCD image collection of the

“

Sternfreunde Breisgau e.V.”

Michael Purcell‘s image of M104, taken on April 14, 1996 at 02:08

with his Meade 10-inch f/6.3 SC Telescope and a ST7 CCD camera, exposed

5 minutes.

Duane Baker of Scurry, Texas

obtained this image of the Sombrero Galaxy M104 on May 5, 1997.

It was exposed for 300 seconds on an ST-7 CCD camera attached to a

Meade 16″ LX-200 at f 3.3.

Hartmut Frommert

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Christine Kronberg

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Last Modification: 28 Jun 1998, 20:40 MET