Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Canes Venatici (CVn)  ·  Contains:  NGC 4627  ·  NGC 4631  ·  Whale Galaxy
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Just a whale, nice name for the galaxy., Claudio Tenreiro
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Just a whale, nice name for the galaxy.

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Just a whale, nice name for the galaxy., Claudio Tenreiro
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Just a whale, nice name for the galaxy.

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NGC 4631 or Whale galaxy a barred spiral one, in the constellation of Canes Venatici. Nice object, The image is from processing a 1 Click Data set, from Telescope live, using SPA2 telescope in Spain. A moderate resolution is obtained using LRGB 4/4/4/4 images of 300" each.

In the field there are three more galaxies that can be seen quite nicely, one just next to a star, to the left of the whale. It is quite interesting the central structure of the galaxy.

Another interesting aspect of this galaxy it has been the study of magnetism, the reference is in

https://phys.org/news/2019-12-giant-magnetic-ropes-whale-galaxy.html

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