Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Coma Berenices (Com)  ·  Contains:  HD111813  ·  HD111842  ·  HD111878  ·  NGC 4712  ·  NGC 4725  ·  NGC 4747
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Galaxy Tandem +1  - NGC4725, NGC4747 and NGC 4712, Robert Shepherd
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Galaxy Tandem +1 - NGC4725, NGC4747 and NGC 4712

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Galaxy Tandem +1  - NGC4725, NGC4747 and NGC 4712, Robert Shepherd
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Galaxy Tandem +1 - NGC4725, NGC4747 and NGC 4712

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Another beautiful cosmic dance caught in seemingly frozen motion.

NGC 4725 and the interacting galaxy NGC 4747 form a tandam around 50 mio. lightyears away, while NGC 4712 drifts in the background - incomprehensible 200 mio. lightyears from Earth.Again I enjoyed processing this scenery. I’m fascinated by the high quality data from the excellent location at pixelskies, Spain. It makes the processing part even more enjoyable, as I can focus on the small and faint details.

The data acquisition on this one was rather straight forward. LRGB, 14 hours total integration with about 6 hours of luminance. The stretching of the RGB was performed with focus on really bringing out those star colours. The resulting warm hues in NGC4725 provide a nice contrast to the blues in NGC4747 and NGC4712.

Enjoy and CS

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Galaxy Tandem +1  - NGC4725, NGC4747 and NGC 4712, Robert Shepherd

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