Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Canes Venatici (CVn)  ·  Contains:  NGC 4395
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ngc 4395 in Canes Venatici, Wim van Berlo
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ngc 4395 in Canes Venatici

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ngc 4395 in Canes Venatici

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ngc 4395 is a low surface brightness galaxy in the constellation Canes Venatici, approximately 14 million light-years from Earth. It is a Seyfert I spiral galaxy with an active nucleus which contains a low mass black hole (300 000 x solar mass). The galaxy lacks a central bulge that is common in spiral galaxies. Its size is approximately 50 000 light-years.
This image contains a few galaxy clusters, the one at the upper left of ngc 4395 at a distance of approximately 3.6 billion light-years.

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Description: colour saturation.

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Description: Added more Ha to the original. I used Red continuum subtraction to isolate the Ha regions.

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ngc 4395 in Canes Venatici, Wim van Berlo