Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Virgo (Vir)  ·  Contains:  IC 3303  ·  IC 3355  ·  IC 3363  ·  M 84  ·  M 86  ·  NGC 4374  ·  NGC 4387  ·  NGC 4388  ·  NGC 4402  ·  NGC 4406  ·  NGC 4407  ·  NGC 4425  ·  NGC 4435  ·  NGC 4438
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Messier 86 Group, Peter Oberč
Messier 86 Group
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Messier 86 Group

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Messier 86 Group, Peter Oberč
Messier 86 Group
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Messier 86 Group

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The impressive Messier 86 Group in Virgo constellation - while the biggest two galaxies, M86 and M84 are boring, there are many interesting and not so small galaxies in this small part of the sky. NGC 4435 and NGC 4438 are a pair of interacting galaxies, also known as Arp 120 or The Eyes Galaxies.  NGC 4413 is small and sexy as well And of course NGC 4438 and especially edge-on spiral NGC 4402 are quite nice and not so small.

Needed quite some time to process this, in the end it was obvious I did not collect enough data for "noise-free" image, so this is resized to 70%.
Data collected in April 2021.

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Messier 86 Group, Peter Oberč