Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Coma Berenices (Com)  ·  Contains:  IC 4040  ·  IC 4041  ·  IC 4045  ·  IC 4051  ·  NGC 4860  ·  NGC 4864  ·  NGC 4865  ·  NGC 4867  ·  NGC 4869  ·  NGC 4871  ·  NGC 4872  ·  NGC 4873  ·  NGC 4874  ·  NGC 4886  ·  NGC 4889  ·  NGC 4895  ·  NGC 4907
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Abel 1656. The Coma Cluster, So Many Galaxies, How Many Can You Count?, Eric Coles (coles44)
Abel 1656. The Coma Cluster, So Many Galaxies, How Many Can You Count?
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Abel 1656. The Coma Cluster, So Many Galaxies, How Many Can You Count?

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The Coma Cluster of Galaxies is located 321 million light-years from earth in the constellation Coma Berenices. This is just one of the super clusters. This one with over 1,000 documented galaxies. See how many you can count. There are more visible galaxies then stars. I lost track of the count. This is an ancient galaxy cluster. So most of the galaxies are a faded orange. Rather then trying to do an RGB image, we decided to get as much luminescence data as possible while the cluster was in good position.

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Abel 1656. The Coma Cluster, So Many Galaxies, How Many Can You Count?, Eric Coles (coles44)