The Incredible Coma Galaxy Cluster (Teagan Grable)

Celestial hemisphere: Northern · Constellation: Coma Berenices (Com) · Contains: IC 3943 · IC 3946 · IC 3949 · IC 4051 · NGC 4860 · NGC 4865 · NGC 4874 · NGC 4881 · NGC 4889 · NGC 4895 · NGC 4896 · NGC 4907 · NGC 4908 · NGC 4911 · NGC 4919 · NGC 4921

The Incredible Coma Galaxy Cluster, Teagan Grable

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The Incredible Coma Galaxy Cluster

The Coma Cluster - The Universe is just a bit bigger than the world around you. We live in an era when people forget to look upwards. They forget to look upwards at the vast environment that surround them. It spans onward for infinity. Looking to the skies, simply said, puts us in our place. Do not fear the vastness. Let it override your senses with awe and wonder. Do not fear it. Let it instill a sense of peace and a sense of rarity. We are so extraordinarily lucky to have the ability, as conscious beings, to ponder this universe. We are such a tiny blip in the grand scheme of things...but we ARE here, and that's pretty damn cool.

Below is a picture of a very large structure. This is a cluster of galaxies that lies 322 million light years away in the constellation Coma Berenices. There is well over 1,500 galaxies in this image Which I took from my backyard. A galaxy cluster is one of the largest structures in the observable universe. All of these galaxies are bound by the immense gravitational force of the central cluster. You can see a couple different types of galaxies in this image such as Spiral and Barred Spiral galaxies as well as elliptical galaxies.

Over 1,500 galaxies. Each of these galaxies have over a 100 billion suns and some up to nearly a trillion. Many, many of these stars are hosts to a planetary system. Many of these planets are likely orbiting around the habitable zone of their sun. Many of them probably have life. —————————————————————

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10" F/3.9 Newtonian

ASI1600mm-Pro

iOptron CEM60

Astrodon LRGB / ZWO 8X31mm FW

Qhy5L-ii

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13hrs Lum

6hrs RGB (Total)

19hrs - 114x600s

Gain: 0 Offset: 10

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