Observation by Nick James: Lots of galaxies in Coma

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Nick James

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Nick James

Observed

2017 Apr 02 - 01:19

Uploaded

2017 Apr 04 - 22:12

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Constellation

Coma Berenices

Field centre

RA: 13^h00^m
Dec: +27°51'
Position angle: +1°55'

Field size

0°36' × 0°24'

Equipment

C11 + FLI CCD

Exposure

37 x 60s

Location

Chelmsford, UK

Target name

Abell 1656

Title

Lots of galaxies in Coma

About this image

Hundreds of galaxies are visible in this 26 x 24 arcmin field of view of Abell 1656, the Coma cluster. The two big ellipticals at the top are NGC4889 (left) and NGC4874 (right) but most of the other objects in this images are galaxies too, including the small disrupted spiral NGC4911 near the dust mote at the bottom left.

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ngc4911.jpg (182.7 kB)

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Jeremy Shears, Graham Winstanley, Nick Hewitt, Dr Ollie Garrett, Peter Carson, Mike Scarisbrick

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