Wednesday, May 30, 2007

Abell 1656 Coma Galaxy Cluster

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©2007 Richard Murray

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Techno Stuff: 5/9/07 ATK-16hr, Megrez 80mm APO at F/6 mounted on LX90 8" SCT, Luminance IR 6x600secs Binning 1x1, RG 3x300secs B 3x360secs Binning 2x2, Autoguided with Atik-2HS and Guidedog from LX90, Darks Applied, Photoshop CS2, PixInsight, Image Analyzer

Notes: Most of the smaller galaxies are clustered around the two larger galaxies on the left: NGC4874 to the left and NGC4889 to the right. There are well over 40 galaxies in this image.