M 51 – The Whirlpool Galaxy Description: M 51, the Whirlpool galaxy. One of the galaxies amateur astronomers love to photograph because it is relatively bright, large, colorful, and almost always visible near the tail of the Big Dipper. She’s 27 million...
M 64 – The Black Eye Galaxy Description: The Black Eye galaxy presents a rather unusual aspect, a consequence of its particular structure. It has an annular structure with two counter-rotating discs of equal mass made of tightly wound spiral arms. It is one of...
M 81 – Bode’s Galaxy Description: M 81 is a beautiful spiral galaxy located in the constellation Ursa Major, right next to another well-known galaxy, M82 the Cigar Galaxy. The two are often photographed in duo with larger field telescopes. It is the same...
M 82 – The Cigar Galaxy Description: M 82 is a spiral galaxy with an impressive bipolar jet that serves as a real study laboratory for scientists. It is 5 times more luminous than our Milky Way and its proximity to the galaxy M81 creates a gravitational...
M 94 – Spiral galaxy Description: The spiral galaxy Messier 94 is located in the constellation Canes Venatici (Hunting Dogs) about 14 million light years from us. Among its peculiarities, we note a star formation disc around the nucleus. Also seen there (visible...
