Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Coma Berenices (Com)  ·  Contains:  IC 3943  ·  IC 3946  ·  IC 3947  ·  IC 3949  ·  IC 3955  ·  IC 3957  ·  IC 3959  ·  IC 3960  ·  IC 3963  ·  IC 3968  ·  IC 3973  ·  IC 3976  ·  IC 3998  ·  IC 4011  ·  IC 4012  ·  IC 4021  ·  IC 4026  ·  IC 4030  ·  IC 4033  ·  IC 4040  ·  IC 4041  ·  IC 4042  ·  IC 4044  ·  IC 4045  ·  IC 4051  ·  IC 839  ·  NGC 4850  ·  NGC 4851  ·  NGC 4853  ·  NGC 4854  ·  And 29 more.
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Abell 1656 Coma Cluster, Barry Wilson
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Abell 1656 Coma Cluster

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This has been a fun image to process because most of the bright objects we can see in the image are galaxies :=) and it is "awesome" in the original sense of the word. What wonder we can detect from our back gardens . . .

From Wkipedia: "The Coma Cluster (Abell 1656) is a large cluster of galaxies that contains over 1,000 identified galaxies.Along with the Leo Cluster (Abell 1367), it is one of the two major clusters comprising the Coma Supercluster.It is located in and takes its name from the constellation Coma Berenices. The cluster's mean distance from Earth is 99 Mpc (321 million light years). Its ten brightest spiral galaxies have apparent magnitudes of 12–14 that are observable with amateur telescopes larger than 20 cm.The central region is dominated by two supergiant elliptical galaxies: NGC 4874 and NGC 4889.The cluster is within a few degrees of the north galactic pole on the sky. Most of the galaxies that inhabit the central portion of the Coma Cluster are ellipticals. Both dwarf and giant ellipticals are found in abundance in the Coma Cluster."

Interesting to see faint extended structure around the large ellipticals too.

Annotated Image uploaded too and have fun peeping at all the fuzzies.

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