M64 - The Black Eye Galaxy
Planewave CDK 12.5in; AP 1100GTO AE
QHY600M, - Antlia Broadband and 3.5nm Ha Filters
Raw/Session Data Lost
Total integration time ~ 23 hrs (Apr 21-25, 2025) Vancouver Island, BC, Canada
M64 is soon to be featured in APRealSpace.com, where an explanation for its black eye will be explained. Unlike our Milky Way, M64 has an active supermassive black hole at its centre - swallowing galactic material. For this reason, M64 is dubbed a "Seyfert galaxy" - a weaker form of a Quasar.