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[groberts]

Can anyone suggest an object(s) that is either 64 light years or 64 million light years away that could be photographed without too much difficulty, preferably by DSLR (not in the northern sky as I can't see it - my house is in the way)? Is there a specific source of such information, perhaps in tabular form? Thought it would make a nice present, to myself!

[Knight of Clear Skies]

Many happy returns.

Messier 91 is listed as 63 million light years away with an error bar of +-16 million years, so that's in the ballpark. I can remember that one because we're seeing it at about the time the dinosaurs went extinct. Not the easiest target but doable. Not brilliantly situated either, it will be an early morning target in a couple months time. There must be some other galaxies at a similar distance.

There are no DSOs as close as 64 light years but there must be plenty of stars to choose from. It's not easy to find a list though, the closest 1,000 top out at 40-something ly.

[Stargazer33]

What about the Antennae galaxies NGC 4038 & NGC 4039 - 64 million light years.

[toxic]

happy birthday 

according to wiki ----- the star K1lll in canis major is 64 ly distant if that helps.

[uhb1966]

I second to the antennae galaxies, but they are difficult to capture right now because thy are right now quite "close " to the sun

There s a very good picture of them here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antennae_Galaxies#mediaviewer/File:Antennae_Galaxies_reloaded.jpg

[Astrosurf]

How about M64, the Black Eye Galaxy? It's in Coma Berenices, but, being hopeless at constellations, I don't know where that is!

Just out of interest, there are a few 64s in this! Not objects to view, just facts.

http://www.centauri-dreams.org/?p=1378

Happy birthday!

Alexxx