Abell 2199 is a distant (~ 420 million light years) galaxy cluster, part of the Hercules galaxy supercluster. The brightest cluster galaxy (BCG) is by far NGC 6166, the elliptical cD type giant galaxy, with a hundred thousand light year long relativistic jet, related to the supermassive (~ 30 billion Solar masses !) black hole in the middle.

Optics:     NoName Newton 192/800
                   + GPU c.c.
Camera:    Atik One 6
Filters:         LRGB Baader
Mount:       SW AZEQ-5
Guider:       Lacerta MGEN, 50mm finder
Exposure:  33x5 min. (L)
                      9x5 min. (R, G, B each), bin 2x2
Software:  PixInsight, Photoshop
14.5. 2018

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