M100 with ASTRA Remote Telescope by Susy Ghia

The images have been shot by Susy Ghia using ASTRA Remote Telescope #4, a refractor 90mm f/4.5 with SBIG ST-8300M.

M100 and surrounding

This is the result of four images for a total exposure of 35 minutes, I used IRIS for registering and stacking the images, also I applied the Asinh filter to stretch the image to increase the details, than with Lightroom CC I increased the sharpness and reduced the noise a little bit to make it pretty.

A closer look at M100 and NGC4312

Messier 100 (also known as NGC 4321) is a grand design intermediate spiral galaxy located within the southern part of constellation Coma Berenices. It is one of the brightest and largest galaxies in the Virgo Cluster, located approximately 55 million light-years distant from Earth and has a diameter of 107,000 light years, roughly 60% the size of the Milky Way.

Wikipedia

You can download all the raw images and processed ones following the link to Google Drive

I analyzed the luminance photo using Astrometrica, APT, Topcat, Aladin and the website CDS Portal; below I post some interesting objects I found through the image, the information are from the CDS Portal but I rounded this values to make them easier and more practical to remember.

WISEA J122607.79+164437.0

Name: WISEA J122607.79+164437.0
Coordinates: 12:26:07.78 +16:44:40.7
Redshift: 0.04526 
Distance from Earth: 700 Million Ly
Velocity: 13000 Km/s
Size: 70000 Ly

SIMBAD & NED

Image from CDS Portal

LEDA 40817

Name: LEDA 40817
Type: Galaxy
Coordinates: 12:27:16.40 +16:30:00.0
Redshift: 0.021
Distance from Earth: 400 Million Ly

SDSS & SIMBAD & NED

Image from CDS Portal

LEDA 040835

Name: LEDA 040835
Coordinates: 12:27:20.64 +16:25:42.8
Redshift: 0.002588
Distance from Earth: 15 Million Ly
Velocity: 800 Km/s
Size: 14000 Ly

SIMBAD & NED

Image from CDS Portal

IC 0792

Name: IC 0792
Type: Galaxy
Coordinates: 12:27:08.74 +16:19:32.6
Redshift: 0.020754
Distance from Earth: 300 Million Ly
Velocity: 6000 Km/s
Size: 150000 Ly

SIMBAD & NED

Image from CDS Portal

LEDA 213991

Name: LEDA 213991
Type: G
Coordinates: 12:27:02.65 +16:20:10.7
Redshift: 0.045028
Distance from Earth: 700 Million Ly
Velocity: 13000 Km/s
Size:  60000 Ly

SIMBAD & NED

Image from CDS Portal

SDSS J122627.83+161237.8

Name: SDSS J122627.83+161237.8
Coordinates: 12:26:27.60 +16:12:39.7
Redshift: 0.114
Distance from Earth: 1.7 Billion Ly

SDSS

Image from CDS Portal

IC 3369

Name: IC 3369
Coordinates: 12:27:16.78 +16:01:28.7
Redshift: 0.00576
Distance from Earth: 90 Million Ly
Velocity: 1700 Km/s
Size: 15000 Ly

SIMBAD & NED

Image from CDS Portal

WISEA J122717.51+160214.6

Name: WISEA J122717.51+160214.6
Type: G
Coordinates: 12:27:17.53 +16:02:15.3
Redshift: 0.23103 +/- 0.00004 
Distance from Earth: 3.3 Billion Ly
Velocity: 70000 Km/s
Size: 230000 Ly
NED 

Image from CDS Portal

MCG+03-32-042

Type: Galaxy
Coordinates: 12:27:13.02 +15:58:46.9
Redshift: 0.066872
Distance from Earth: 1 Billion Ly
Velocity: 20000 Km/s
Size: 150000 Ly
SIMBAD & NED 

Image from CDS Portal

IC 3365

Name: IC 3365
Coordinates: 12:27:11.57 +15:53:51.1
Redshift: 0.007839
Distance from Earth: 120 Million Ly
Velocity: 2000 Km/s
Size: 40000 Ly
SIMBAD & NED 

Image from CDS Portal

WISEA J122707.20+154706.2

Name: WISEA J122707.20+154706.2
Coordinates: 12:27:06.93 +15:47:08.4
Redshift: 0.094 ± 0.0292
SDSS & NED 
Image from CDS Portal
Machine generated alternative text:
"rmflt

Three galaxies from SDSS catalogue

Name: SDSS J122716.32+153446.0 (1)
Coordinates: 12:27:16.20 +15:34:44.1
Redshift: 0.219 ± 0.0114
SDSS
Name: SDSS J122714.06+153404.6 (2)
Coordinates: 12:27:13.93 +15:34:05.6
SDSS
Name: SDSS J122711.39+153452.7 (3)
Coordinates: 12:27:11.27 +15:34:52.0
SDSS
Image from CDS Portal

Two galaxies from SDSS catalogue

Name: SDSS J122646.73+153850.7 (1)
Coordinates: 12:26:46.57 +15:38:48.9
Redshift: 0.072 ± 0.0229
SDSS
Name: SDSS J122640.51+153831.7 (2)
Coordinates: 12:26:40.32 +15:38:32.2
SDSS
Machine generated alternative text:
-bgrmflt•

Three galaxies from SDSS catalogue

Name: SDSS J122548.80+152706.9 (1)
Coordinates: 12:25:48.62 +15:27:06.9
SDSS
Name: SDSS J122547.63+152713.4 (2)
Coordinates: 12:25:47.48 +15:27:12.3
Redshift: 0.11844 +/- 0.00014
Distance from Earth: 1.7 Billion Ly
Velocity: 35000 Km/s
Size: 100000 Ly
SDSS & NED
Name: SDSS J122547.76+152645.8 (3)
Coordinates: 12:25:47.68 +15:26:44.9
Redshift: 0.113 ± 0.0285
SDSS
Image from CDS Portal

WISEA J122551.51+152312.0

Name:  WISEA J122551.51+152312.0 (SDSS J122551.51+152312.0)
Coordinates: 12:25:51.16 +15:23:11.6
Redshift: 0.08147 +/- 0.00015
Distance from Earth: 1.2 Billion Ly
Velocity: 25000 Km/s
Size: 80000 Ly
SDSS & NED
Image from CDS Portal

SDSS J122235.33+162054.8

Name: SDSS J122235.33+162054.8
Coordinates: 12:22:34.76 +16:20:55.6
SDSS
Image from CDS Portal

NGC 4350

Name: NGC 4350
Type: Galaxy
Coordinates: 12:23:57.86 +16:41:37.4
Redshift: 0.00412
Distance from Earth: 70 Million Ly
Velocity: 1200 Km/s
Size: 50000 Ly
NED
Image from CDS Portal

NGC 4421

Type: Galaxy
Coordinates: 12:27:02.53 +15:27:41.4
Redshift: 0.005347
Distance from Earth: 80 Million Ly
Velocity: 1600 Km/s
Size: 40000 Ly
NED & SIMBAD
Image from CDS Portal

NGC 4405

Name: NGC 4405
Coordinates: 12:26:07.10 +16:10:51.6
Redshift: 0.005827
Distance from Earth: 90 Million Ly
Velocity: 1700 Km/s
Size: 40000 Ly
NED & SIMBAD
Image from CDS Portal

WISEA J122404.55+154433.7

Name: WISEA J122404.55+154433.7
Coordinates: 12:24:04.51 +15:44:32.1
Redshift: 0.119643
Distance from Earth: 1.8 Million Ly
Velocity: 30000 Km/s
Size: 160000 Ly
NED
Image from CDS Portal
Machine generated alternative text:
GALAXY

NGC 4239 & WISEA J121714.24+163228.9

Name: NGC 4239
Coordinates:12:17:14.94 +16:31:52.7
Redshift: 0.00314
Distance from Earth: 60 Million Ly
Velocity: 1000 Km/s
Size: 30000 Ly
NED
Name: WISEA J121714.24+163228.9
Coordinates: 12:17:14.39 +16:32:29.9
Redshift: 0.094 ± 0.0184
NED & SDSS
Image from CDS Portal
Machine generated alternative text:
4239

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