NGC-4438, NGC-4435, Copeland's Eyes (Mark L Mitchell)

Celestial hemisphere: Northern · Constellation: Virgo (Vir) · Contains: IC 3355 · IC 3388 · IC 3393 · M 86 · NGC 4402 · NGC 4406 · NGC 4407 · NGC 4413 · NGC 4425 · NGC 4435 · NGC 4438 · NGC 4458 · NGC 4461 · The Eyes

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NGC-4438, NGC-4435, Copeland's Eyes

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NGC-4438, NGC-4435, Copeland's Eyes

8h10m LRGB between the clouds over 6 weeks. Two of the central galaxies in Markarian's chain were described as looking like eyes by Leland Copeland in a Sky & Telescope article in 1955.
The upper eye is galaxy NGC-4438 in my picture (you have to turn the image or your head 90° to have them look like eyes). NGC-4438 might be a spiral galaxy and it appears to have a tidal tail of stars from gravitational interaction with something. NGC-4438 is #120 in Arp’s catalog of peculiar galaxies. The lower eye is galaxy NGC-4435. Sandage and Bedke thought that the changes in NGC-4438 had nothing to do with NGC-4435, but from what I read, that is still unknown. My annotated plate-solved version of the image shows about 60 galaxies in this approximately 1 x 0.8° field of view. That is about the width of a typical person’s index fingernail at arm’s length. There is apparently a reference to this galaxy in the movie Interstellar, and it may be the location or destination of a wormhole in that movie. Mathew McConaughey is the lead, but I don’t remember if he takes his shirt off or not.

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RA (center)	12h27m47s.63
RA (top/left)	12h26m13s.80
RA (top/right)	12h30m08s.62
RA (bottom/right)	12h29m22s.55
RA (bottom/left)	12h25m26s.38

Dec (center)	+13°01′49″.8
Dec (top/left)	+12°31′54″.4
Dec (top/right)	+12°46′06″.7
Dec (bottom/right)	+13°31′40″.8
Dec (bottom/left)	+13°17′27″.5

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