My Notes: These notes are identical to M58 since I captured this (unknowingly) at the same time. It is was on the edge of the frame so the resolution and distortion probably isn’t as good as it could be, but these galaxies are so hard to resolve that without a better astrophotography setup, it wouldn’t be noticeably better if I put M89 in the center of the sensor. So until I have more power, there’s no reason to photograph this again.
(From M58) There’s mot much to say about M58. I captured it immediately after M59 & M60 so check there for details on the capture. It was very easy to just slide my camera over slightly to capture this and as I found out later, M89, owing to the fact that they are all so close in the Virgo Supercluster. I would have continued on to the other objects but Virgo was getting low in the sky and these are so hard to capture in the best of time that I decided to stop. Captured 20 images June 4, 2021 from 01:04 - 01:42. Only 8 were usable. I can barely tell it’s a spiral galaxy in the image.

Herschel Notes: “Pretty bright; pretty small; round; gradually much brighter toward the middle.”

Messier Notes: (March 18, 1781) “nebula without star. Its light was extremely faint and rare, and it is not without trouble it is perceived.”