Abell 426 Galaxy Cluster, also known as the Perseus A Cluster (Mark C. Helton)

Celestial hemisphere: Northern · Constellation: Perseus (Per) · Contains: HD275042 · HD275043 · HD275045 · HD275046 · HD275047 · HD275048 · HD275049 · HD275052 · HD275053 · HD275152 · HD275155 · HD275156 · HD275157 · HD275158 · HD275159 · HD275161 · HD275162 · IC 1907 · IC 308 · IC 310 · IC 312 · IC 313 · IC 316 · NGC 1250 · NGC 1257 · NGC 1259 · NGC 1260 · NGC 1264 · NGC 1265 · NGC 1267 · And 17 more.

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Abell 426 Galaxy Cluster, also known as the Perseus A Cluster

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Abell 426 Galaxy Cluster, also known as the Perseus A Cluster

So many galaxies, so little time! Imaging galaxy clusters always amazes me. It gives us a sense of how insanely large our universe is...if it is infinite, then large does not even make any sense! to think that in this image there are hundreds, if not thousands of galaxies. Tiny oceans of stars, and potential civilizations! Then you think of JWST, which takes a fraction of the size of this image, and finds hundreds of thousands of more galaxies, well it just boggles the mind! The main galaxy, the brightest galaxy is NGC 1275, a galaxy putting out a lot of radio waves, and x rays. Very happy with how this image came out.
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Mark

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The refractors!
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RA (center)	03h18m34s.803
RA (top/left)	03h21m26s.271
RA (top/right)	03h14m38s.175
RA (bottom/right)	03h15m46s.317
RA (bottom/left)	03h22m29s.274

Dec (center)	+41°35′02″.51
Dec (top/left)	+42°09′25″.80
Dec (top/right)	+41°50′57″.26
Dec (bottom/right)	+41°00′23″.95
Dec (bottom/left)	+41°18′38″.95

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