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M87 (Galaxy, in Virgo)
Observer: Joe Caggiano (e-mail: jcaggiano@mindspring.com)
Instrument: 70-mm binoculars Location: New River, West Va., USA
Light pollution: none Transparency: excellent Seeing: excellent
Time: Sat May 28 04:00:00 2005 UT Obs. no.: 1238
In my previous log, I claimed I had seen Comet Temple 1. I now believe what I had seen was actually the giant galaxy M87. Panning through star atlases, it has come to my attention that the comet is presently in the Virgo region. Just off from this region is the Coma Berences Galaxy Cluster with M87 being the brightest and the largest. At @ 65 million light years, it is recorded in various books of mine as being easily visible in binos. Also, pictures in these books shows that it is a giant orange sphere due to it's stars being very ancient. It is predominatly populated by Orange Giant type stars. With what I have read and seen, I must alter my log. Sorry for the misinformation.
M87 (Galaxy, in Virgo, Est. RaDec -)
Observer: Eero Holmstrm (e-mail: holmerkki@altavista.net, web: http://angelfire.com/music/holmerkki/index.html )
Instrument: 8-inch Dobsonian reflector Location: Pernajan kirkonkyl, Pernaja, Finland
Light pollution: light Transparency: good Seeing: good
Time: Sun Apr 9 00:50:00 2000 UT Obs. no.: 524
Quite nice! At 120x the galaxy looked much like an unresolved globular cluster. As is typical for an elliptical galaxy, the surface is completely featureless. Three of M87's satellite galaxies were also visible : NGC4476, NGC4478 and NGC4486A.
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