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This image was created by median combining 7 x 90 second unfiltered images taken with a Takahashi Epsilon 250 with SBIG ST-8XE CCD. The image has been cut down to be 30 x 30 arc minutes in size.
M59 (NGC 4621) is one of the larger elliptical galaxies in Virgo although it is considerably less luminous and massive than M87. Somewhat flattened, at its assumed distance of 60 million light years, it has a maximum diameter of 90000 light years. M60 (NGC 4649) is also a giant elliptical galaxy. At a distance of some 60 million light years it has a diameter of 120000 light years.
In collaboration with the Remote Astronomical Society Observatory
Martin Nicholson - Daventry, United Kingdom.
This page was last updated on April 15th 2009.