This is a nice pair of interacting galaxies located about 55 million light-years away in the constellation Coma Berenices as a part of the Virgo galaxy cluster (roughly between M99 and M100). NGC 4302 is the edge-on spiral (Seyfert) galaxy and NGC 4298 is the flocculent spiral galaxy.
In the field an extremely distant quasar with redshift z=4.27 was even captured (marked by an arrow under the upper right corner of the picture), it's light was traveling to us for some 12.2 billion light-years.

 JKZ, 23.-24.3.  2022

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NoName Newton 192/800
+ GPU c.c.
Atik One 6
LRGB Baader.
SW AZEQ-6
50mm guider + Lacerta MGEN
41x5 min. (L)
14x4 min. (R, G, B each), bin 2x2
PixInsight, Photoshop

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