Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Coma Berenices (Com)  ·  Contains:  Coma Pinwheel  ·  IC 3142  ·  IC 781  ·  M 99  ·  NGC 4254  ·  NGC 4262  ·  NGC 4298  ·  NGC 4302  ·  Virgo Cluster Pinwheel
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M99 with some interesting neighbors, LittleGhost
M99 with some interesting neighbors
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M99 with some interesting neighbors

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M99 with some interesting neighbors, LittleGhost
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M99 with some interesting neighbors

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After having completed my Markarian Chain image I decided it's not such a waste of time to actually gather some more data from the area.  I am really fond of M101 and M99 resembles it, albeit in a smaller scale from our vantage point.  In addition we have 2 galaxies (NGC 4302 & 4298) that appear to be interacting - but in fact are simply superimposed on one another.

Native sampling is 1.5", which is undersampled, and quite a bit of detail is lost.  I used 2x drizzle to extract far more detail than was available in the regular stack. Final image is resampled to show the picture at 1"/px.

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M99 with some interesting neighbors, LittleGhost

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