[billdan (Bill)]

This object doesn't get any higher than 40º Elevation at my place, so I could only image 1 hour per night over 7 days. Even then I got very little blue data, so the galaxy is lacking the correct amount of blue.

Details from NASA

M64 was discovered by the English astronomer Edward Pigott. It is located 17 million light-years from Earth in the constellation Coma Berenices and is best observed in May. With an apparent magnitude of 9.8,

The gas in the outer regions of this remarkable galaxy is rotating in the opposite direction from the gas and stars in its inner regions. This strange behavior can be attributed to a merger between M64 and a satellite galaxy over a billion years ago. New stars are forming in the region where the oppositely rotating gases collide, are compressed, and then contract.

Thanks for looking
Bill