| Date/Location |
April 2, 2021 Jubilee College State Park, Illinois |
| Camera and Settings |
SBIG ST-2000XCM CCD Camera -20°C |
| Telescope |
William Optics 132mm f/7 apo (with a Televue 0.8x focal reducer/field flattener to yield f/5.6) |
| Mount |
Celestron CGEM II |
| Exposure |
60 minutes (6 x 10 min) |
| Processing |
CCDOpts, Images Plus 6.5, Photoshop CS6 |
| Other |
M87, a.k.a NGC 4486 or Virgo A, is a magnitude 8.6 elliptical galaxy 7.1 x .66 arcmin in size. Other galaxies brighter than magnitude 13 labeled. Myriad fainter galaxies in the image. |
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