Astronomy Adventure — M49

E.Eggert(m2c4)
1 min readNov 8, 2019

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Messier 49 is one of the brighter galaxies in the Virgo Cluster. As an elliptical galaxy, it appears in even the best photographs as not much more than a fuzzy blob.

Technical details:
Scope: Starblast 4.5; tracking on
Magnification: ~30x
Camera: iPhone6 using NightCap Pro;
ISO 8000; 20 second exposure;

Originally published at https://thesoundings.com on November 8, 2019.

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