M106 and its neighbors (Clint Lemasters)

Celestial hemisphere: Northern · Constellation: Canes Venatici (CVn) · Contains: HD106556 · HD106689 · HD107275 · M 106 · NGC 4217 · NGC 4218 · NGC 4220 · NGC 4226 · NGC 4231 · NGC 4232 · NGC 4248 · NGC 4258

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M106 and its neighbors

M106 (in foreground) is a galaxy located about 25 million light years away in the Canes Venatici constellation, just below the big dipper. It's about 122,000 light years across. The light we see from M106 is how the galaxy appeared when apes first began to walk the earth.

NGC4217 (upper right) is an edge on galaxy 50 million light years away.

NGC 4220 (upper left) is a lenticular galaxy 61 million light years away.

NGC 4248 (just above M106) is an edge on spiral galaxy 36 million light years away. But what are those tiny red dots to the left that show some sort of structure?

I was super interested in the tiny red smears to the left of NGC 4248. The smears lay behind PGC 2299122 and 0199. To my eye they appeared to be very distant galaxies. After searching some research databases I discovered they are a pair of galaxy clusters: 2XMMi J121744.1+472913 and ClG J1217+4730. They are 2.94 BILLION light years away. The photons travelling from these galaxies began their journey when single cell bacteria and viruses were the only signs of life here on earth. Their collective shape or grouping most likely reflects the large scale dark matter web that formed at the beginning of the universe and which formed as a lattice for normal matter to coalesce.

Credit for Original Work: God refractor and captures a host of other "nearby" galaxies. There are some great smaller galaxies in the image, but my favorite is what appears to be a galaxy group (smeared red dots) above and to the left of M106 that follows what I can only assume to be dark matter filaments very, very far away.

Thank you to my neighbor Calvin for allowing me to image from his field!

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RA (center)	12h17m43s.667
RA (top/left)	12h15m25s.588
RA (top/right)	12h15m04s.350
RA (bottom/right)	12h19m58s.268
RA (bottom/left)	12h20m26s.807

Dec (center)	+47°28′07″.19
Dec (top/left)	+48°08′46″.41
Dec (top/right)	+46°49′59″.11
Dec (bottom/right)	+46°47′20″.40
Dec (bottom/left)	+48°06′04″.15

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