Description
Overview:
The Messier Object M60 is a Galaxy discovered by Johann Gottfried Koehler in 1779.
It has an angular size of 7 x 6 arc minutes.
Location:
M60 is located inside the constellation Virgo at RA
12 43.7 and Declination 11 33.
It is 60,000 light years from the planet Earth which makes it the 94th furthest Messier Object from Earth.
Brightness:
Compared to other objects from the Messier catalog, M60 is a relatively dim deep space object
with a visual magnitude of 8.8.
