Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Coma Berenices (Com)  ·  Contains:  IC 3292  ·  M 85  ·  NGC 4293  ·  NGC 4382  ·  NGC 4394  ·  The star 11Com
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M85, Kurt Zeppetello
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I am almost caught up with processing images, just one more, as the weather has been very cloudy as of late. Just by coincidence, M85 happens to be the 85th Messier object I captured for my catalog.

M85 (a.k.a. NGC 4382) is an elliptical galaxy in the Coma Berenices constellation and is 60 million light-years away. It is interacting with the nearby spiral galaxy NGC 4394, and a small elliptical galaxy called MCG 3-32-38.

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