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 was even captured (see the inset
below, just beside the upper right corner of the upper
picture). With z=4.27 it's
light was travelling some 12.2 billion light-years.
JKZ, 23.-24.3. 2022 |
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Guider
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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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