Celestial hemisphere:  Southern  ·  Constellation: Virgo (Vir)  ·  Contains:  M 104  ·  NGC 4594  ·  PGC 3097710  ·  PGC 961516  ·  PGC 961836  ·  PGC 962963  ·  PGC 964710  ·  PGC 964919  ·  PGC 965208  ·  Sombrero Galaxy
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M104 - Sombrero Galaxy, James Tickner
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M104 - Sombrero Galaxy

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M104 - Sombrero Galaxy

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M104 (NGC4594) is known as the Sombrero Galaxy because of its prominent dark dust lane.
Several fainter galaxies can also be seen, including the 17th magnitude dwarf companion galaxy [C83] NGC4594 DW1 which is situated at about 4 o'clock with respect to M104 at RA 12 39 15.1 DEC -11 43 07, just to the left of a prominent magnitude 12.6 star.

Interesting this dwarf galaxy companion doesn't appear in the PGC or HyperLEDA catalogues and so isn't annotated. Many thanks to @andrea tasselli and @Gernot Schreider for helping to identify this one!

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