M60 (elliptical galaxy) Magnitude: 8.80
One of the giant elliptical galaxies in the Virgo Cluster of galaxies. As the most following (eastern) Messier galaxy in this cluster, it is the last in a row of 3 (M58, 59, and 60) which comes into the field of view of a telescope pointed to this region of the sky. At small magnifications, it lies in the same field of view as M59 (25 arc minutes away). M-60 is conspicuous in telescopes starting from 4 inch because of its faint neighbor, NGC 4647.