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The Sombrero Galaxy is well placed

Dominic Ford, Editor
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The Sombrero Galaxy M104 (NGC 4594; mag 8.6) in Virgo will be well placed in the evening sky in coming weeks. On 1 April it will reach its highest point in the sky at around midnight local time, and on subsequent evenings it will culminate four minutes earlier each day.

From Washington , it is visible between 22:08 and 04:52. It will become accessible at around 22:08, when it rises to an altitude of 21° above your south-eastern horizon. It will reach its highest point in the sky at 01:30, 41° above your southern horizon. It will become inaccessible at around 04:52 when it sinks below 21° above your south-western horizon.

At a declination of 11°37'S, it is easiest to see from the southern hemisphere; it can be seen at latitudes between 58°N and 81°S.

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At magnitude 8.6, M104 is quite faint, and certainly not visible to the naked eye, but can be viewed through a pair of binoculars or small telescope.

The position of M104 is as follows:

Object Right Ascension Declination Constellation Magnitude Angular Size
M104 12h39m50s 11°37'S Virgo 8.6 0'00"

The coordinates above are given in J2000.0.

The sky on 2 Apr 2021

The sky on 2 April 2021
Sunrise
07:15
Sunset
19:57
Twilight ends
21:26
Twilight begins
05:46

20-day old moon
Waning Gibbous

67%

20 days old

Planets
Rise Culm. Set
Mercury 06:48 12:42 18:35
Venus 07:27 13:44 20:02
Moon 01:04 05:56 10:43
Mars 10:28 17:51 01:14
Jupiter 05:14 10:32 15:50
Saturn 04:38 09:44 14:50
All times shown in MDT.

Source

The circumstances of this event were computed using the DE430 planetary ephemeris published by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL).

This event was automatically generated by searching the ephemeris for planetary alignments which are of interest to amateur astronomers, and the text above was generated based on an estimate of your location.

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© Digitised Sky Survey (DSS); Second Palomar Observatory Sky Survey (POSS-II)

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113.51°W
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