M87 - Knoll Observatory M87 Elliptical Galaxy
Image: M87 Galaxy by Patric Knoll - 2008
Little Blair Valley - San Diego City Limits
M87 Galaxy - Virgo

Meade LX200 - 10 inch SCT @ f/10 - ST402 guiding
SBIG ST8XME CCD Camera @ f/10
Luminance 6x10 minutes LBV (2006) - RGB 10:10:15 minutes San Diego (2008)
Processed using CCDOps-AIP4Win-Photoshop

M87 Galaxy Jet
Image: M87 Galaxy by Patric Knoll - 2008
Little Blair Valley - San Diego City Limits
M87 Galaxy - Virgo

Processed to reveal M87 Jet from the core using the same data as previous image

Kuhn Telescope M87 Galaxy Jet
Image: M87 Galaxy by Patric Knoll - 2009
Orange County Astronomer's Observatory
M87 Galaxy - Virgo

Published on Astronomy Magazine's Picture of the Day
(Click Image)

Enlarged (2x) and heavily processed to reveal faint inner details of the Jet from the core using
the OCA 22 inch Kuhn telescope
ST-8XME with AO-7 guiding LRGB: 6x10:1x10:1x10:1x10 minutes


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