I headed to Martha Lake Park near Larch Way.

Visiting Martha Lake and Larch Way

I browsed Larch Way on some map sites but did not find any points of interest except for the Interurban Trail. I saw that Martha Lake Park is adjacent to Larch Way, so I headed there to park.

Messier 59 (Wikipedia) Messier 59 or M59, also known as NGC 4621, is an elliptical galaxy in the equatorial constellation of Virgo. It is a member of the Virgo Cluster, with the nearest fellow member 8′ away and around 5 magnitudes fainter. The nearest cluster member of comparable brightness is the lenticular galaxy NGC 4638, which is around 17′ away. It and the angularly nearby elliptical galaxy Messier 60 were both discovered by Johann Gottfried Koehler in April 1779 when observing comet seeming close by. Charles Messier listed both in the Messier Catalogue about three days after Koehler’s discovery.