M 99 NGC 4254 St. Catherine’s Wheel

Capture

Seestar s50 231 stacks

Date

25 April 2024

Location

Camden, NSW

Original

986 × 1460 px

M 99 NGC 4254 St. Catherine’s Wheel is a grand design spiral galaxy with long, unbarred, large and clearly defined spiral arms in the northern constellation Coma Berenices approximately 55 million light-years from Earth. Its diameter is 85,000 light years, almost the same size as the Milky Way. It has an estimated mass of 50 billion solar masses, it has only 5 percent of our galaxy’s mass. Apparent magnitude 10.4

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