Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Coma Berenices (Com)  ·  Contains:  IC 3968  ·  IC 3973  ·  IC 3976  ·  IC 3998  ·  IC 4012  ·  IC 4026  ·  IC 4030  ·  IC 4033  ·  IC 4040  ·  IC 4041  ·  IC 4042  ·  IC 4044  ·  NGC 4860  ·  NGC 4864  ·  NGC 4865  ·  NGC 4867  ·  NGC 4869  ·  NGC 4871  ·  NGC 4872  ·  NGC 4873  ·  NGC 4874  ·  NGC 4875  ·  NGC 4876  ·  NGC 4881  ·  NGC 4883  ·  NGC 4886  ·  NGC 4889  ·  NGC 4894  ·  NGC 4895  ·  NGC 4898  ·  And 2 more.
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Coma Galaxy Cluster, Benjamin Law
Coma Galaxy Cluster
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Coma Galaxy Cluster

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Coma Galaxy Cluster

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The universe is really bigger than we thought. This Deep-Sky-Object is "deeper" than anything I have shot before.

Coma Galaxy Cluster from Bortle 7 backyard in Southern Ontario

I can spot at least 130 galaxies in this 10 hours shot using Edge8 at F/10 with the ASI294MC-Pro camera at -15C with 300gain and 180s subs. Most dots you see in this picture are not stars, they are galaxies with billions of stars in each.

At a distance of 320 million light years, the Coma Cluster (Abell 1656) is a large cluster of galaxies that contains over 1,000 identified galaxies. Abell 1656 and the Leo Cluster (Abell 1367) are the major components of the Coma Supercluster. The apparent extent of the cluster is three times larger than the Moon, only about one third is shown in this image. The central region is dominated by two giant elliptical galaxies... NGC 4874 and 4889.

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Coma Galaxy Cluster, Benjamin Law

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