Episode 51 of Star Hopping – published March 2nd, 2017
In Episode SH051 we’ll once again visit the Realm of the Galaxies. We’ll check out three new galaxies we haven’t seen before: Messier 85, a lenticular galaxy, Messier 8, a massive spiral galaxy, and the lost Messier galaxy, M91. This last one also has the distinction of being the faintest galaxy on the Messier list.
Constellation:
Coma Berenices
Deep Sky Objects covered:
M85 – Galaxy
M88 – Galaxy
M91 – Galaxy