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Left: amateur image, right: Hubble image of Messier 64. The left image shows a spiral galaxy with a bright-white core and one prominent dust lane. The right image shows a spiral galaxy with a bright white core and a dusty disk dotted with stars and reddish nebulae.

Messier 64: Amateur Image vs. Hubble Image

Messier 64 (M64) is a dusty spiral galaxy also known as the "Black Eye" or "Evil Eye" galaxy. 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, CSA, ESA, F. Belfiore (European Southern Observatory – Germany), J. Lee (Space Telescope Science Institute), A. Leroy (The Ohio State University), and D. Thilker (The Johns Hopkins University); Processing: Gladys Kober (NASA/Catholic University of America)
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