Date Posted: 4/2/2025
Date Taken: Three nights, from 2/19 thru 3/2/2017
Scope: Planewave CDK 12.5 f/8, 2541mm
Camera: SBIG STL-11000 with Astrodon Tru-Balance E-Series Gen2 filters
Temp: -15C
Mount: Losmandy Titan
Guiding: SSAG, Celestron 80mm guide scope, 600mm.
Exposure: LRGB 220:120:100:115 All subs 5min. Luminance unbinned, RGB binned 2x2.

Calibrated and Stacked with CCDStack2; RGB combine and DDP with MaximDL. Processed with CS4.

M95 is a beautiful, face-on barred spiral galaxy that also sports a prominent ring structure. It is located about 33 million light years away in Leo. At magnitude 9.7, it is one of the fainter Messier objects. It contains an estimated 40 billion stars, and spans an area of about 80,000 light years.

This is a tweak of the original image to brighten the galaxy and reduce star bloat.