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Sky Chart: May 2008
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Looking South at 10:00 pm EDT on May 15.
The Sombrero is only one of numerous galaxies in Virgo; the region between Virgo and Leo contains 16 Messier objects and dozens of fainter NGC targets composing the Virgo Cluster - a gravitationally-bound group centered 50 or 60 million light-years away - and of which our Local Group of galaxies is an outlying member. We can see such distant clusters more easily in the spring and fall, when the obscuring band of gas and dust in our own local Milky Way lies low on our horizon.(Click image to enlarge)*
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