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Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Canes Venatici (CVn)  ·  Contains:  NGC 4627  ·  NGC 4631

Image of the day 04/02/2016

NGC 4627 and 4631 - The Whale Galaxy, Colin McGill
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NGC 4627 and 4631 - The Whale Galaxy

Image of the day 04/02/2016

NGC 4627 and 4631 - The Whale Galaxy, Colin McGill
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NGC 4627 and 4631 - The Whale Galaxy

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Lovely pair of interacting galaxies NGC 4627 and NC 4631. The upper elliptical galaxy has distorted the edge on spiral NGC 4631 to give a very passable image of a whale.

I have provided two images - one with Halpha, one without.

As you can see, the Ha data brings out the emission regions at the edge of the galaxy rather nicely.

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