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Left: amateur image, right: Hubble image of Messier 95. The left image shows a small, bright circular region with a faint glow of the galaxy's bar extending from it. The right image reveals the galaxy's bright core, bar and part of a spiral arm.

Messier 95: Amateur Image vs. Hubble Image

Messier 95 (M 95) is a barred spiral galaxy roughly 33 million light-years away in the constellation Leo. The left image was taken with an 8-inch Schmidt-Cassegrain telescope using a 0.63x focal reducer and a DSLR Camera. The right image was taken by NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope.

Image Credit: Amateur Image: Photographed by and used with permission of K. Hartnett; Hubble Image: NASA, ESA, D. Calzetti (University of Massachusetts – Amherst), and R. Chandar (University of Toledo); Image Processing: Gladys Kober (NASA/Catholic University of America)
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