Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Coma Berenices (Com)  ·  Contains:  NGC 4712  ·  NGC 4725  ·  NGC 4747
NGC 4725, NGC 4747, NGC4712, Mario Tuernich
NGC 4725, NGC 4747, NGC4712
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NGC 4725, NGC 4747, NGC4712

NGC 4725, NGC 4747, NGC4712, Mario Tuernich
NGC 4725, NGC 4747, NGC4712
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NGC 4725, NGC 4747, NGC4712

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The great spirals, with their enormous radial velocities and insensible proper motions, apparently lie outside our (Solar) system - Edwin Hubble, first page of his Ph.D. Dissertation 1917

NGC 4725 (centre)/ NGC 4747 (upper left) /NGC 4747 (lower right) and PGC86434 (upper right) constitute a beautiful quadrupel of galaxies belonging to the Coma-Sculptor galaxy Cluster. The red K-star Hip 62778 at the left border is a true binary star.

The data for this picture were collected in june/july 2016.

The short nights during this period did not allow for any visual observations or any other additional LRGB targets during this time.

The nights with moon were used for the Ha data.

As I am still lacking knowledge and experience (and time) a significant amount of time was necessary for my processing . Back in Oktober - having first finished the LRGB part of the processing - I decided to rework the picture and incorperate the Ha data which I originale disgarded. The result is the picture displayed here.

Unfortunately I was just not able to finish the picture in a seasonally more adequate time but maybe some of you might still enjoy this beautiful constellation of galaxies even late into the year.

By now I generated more data of different objects which I am planning to process and publish here in the next weeks/months - unfortunately most of them will be of season as well.

Beside the aesthetic aspect of these galaxies there is a wealth of interesting astronomy happening here.

Maybe this site is not the place to put it, but I would like to start a site next year with more information about the really exciting astronomical aspects underlying this and other pictures to follow.

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NGC 4725, NGC 4747, NGC4712, Mario Tuernich