Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Coma Berenices (Com)  ·  Contains:  IC 3943  ·  IC 3946  ·  IC 3949  ·  IC 3955  ·  IC 3973  ·  IC 4040  ·  IC 4042  ·  IC 4045  ·  IC 4051  ·  NGC 4860  ·  NGC 4864  ·  NGC 4865  ·  NGC 4869  ·  NGC 4871  ·  NGC 4873  ·  NGC 4874  ·  NGC 4881  ·  NGC 4883  ·  NGC 4886  ·  NGC 4889  ·  NGC 4895  ·  NGC 4898  ·  NGC 4907  ·  NGC 4908  ·  NGC 4911  ·  NGC 4919  ·  NGC 4921  ·  NGC 4923
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The sea of galaxies - Abell 1656, "Coma cluster", LRGB, Mikhail Vasilev
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The sea of galaxies - Abell 1656, "Coma cluster", LRGB

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The brightest and most accessible to photography cluster in the constellation of Coma Berenices.

336 million light years from earth. Contains over a thousand different galaxies (most of them are elliptical) and huge amount of dark matter.

One of the few places in the sky where most objects are galaxies and not stars

Red light pollution zone, balcony

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The sea of galaxies - Abell 1656, "Coma cluster", LRGB, Mikhail Vasilev