Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Canes Venatici (CVn)  ·  Contains:  NGC 4485  ·  NGC 4490
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NGC4490 - ARP 269 LRGB - The Cocoon Galaxy, andrea tasselli
NGC4490 - ARP 269 LRGB - The Cocoon Galaxy
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NGC4490 - ARP 269 LRGB - The Cocoon Galaxy

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NGC4490 - ARP 269 LRGB - The Cocoon Galaxy, andrea tasselli
NGC4490 - ARP 269 LRGB - The Cocoon Galaxy
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NGC4490 - ARP 269 LRGB - The Cocoon Galaxy

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No name seems to me more apt to represent this peculiar galaxy than cocoon. It always resembled thus to me once I imaged it (I could never had guessed by looking at my reference guide's picture, The Night Sky Observer's Guide), some weird alien cocoon lost forever in the tides of space and time.

The image started and ended as a set of unguided integrations dispersed along the years between 2005 and 2007, so they straddle the beginning and the end of that particular phase, a phase I wish I could restart if I had enough founds to part with. On of the few that excaped the cull and was never re-imaged again with longer subs. And probably will stay this way.

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NGC4490 - ARP 269 LRGB - The Cocoon Galaxy, andrea tasselli