Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Canes Venatici (CVn)  ·  Contains:  NGC 4656  ·  NGC 4657
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NGC 4656 is really close to ngc 4631 and the tidal distortion is quite evident. In fact, ngc 4631 is just out of the field of view to the upper right and it is clearly causing a lot of problems with the bottom half of 4656. The little galaxy right at the top left hand edge of 4656 is ngc 4657 (mag. 10.6)-clearly interacting strongly with 4656. The faint object in the upper-left corner may not be part of the galaxy, but instead be a dwarf galaxy in the process of merging with NGC 4656.

The final image is still a bit noisy; I suppose that's because I was trying to get some detail out of the bottom half of the galaxy which is only barely above sky background.

Reminds me of Concorde landing!

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