Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Coma Berenices (Com)  ·  Contains:  HD112734  ·  HD112886  ·  HD112887  ·  IC 3943  ·  IC 3946  ·  IC 3947  ·  IC 3949  ·  IC 3955  ·  IC 3957  ·  IC 3959  ·  IC 3960  ·  IC 3963  ·  IC 3968  ·  IC 3973  ·  IC 3976  ·  IC 3998  ·  IC 4011  ·  IC 4012  ·  IC 4021  ·  IC 4026  ·  IC 4030  ·  IC 4033  ·  IC 4040  ·  IC 4041  ·  IC 4042  ·  IC 4044  ·  IC 4045  ·  IC 4051  ·  IC 839  ·  NGC 4848  ·  And 32 more.
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Abell 1656 on Lacerta 250, Piet Vanneste
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Abell 1656 on Lacerta 250

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Abell 1656 on Lacerta 250, Piet Vanneste
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Abell 1656 on Lacerta 250

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Description

Not specatular , but quite interesting object

Located in the Coma Berenices containing a huge amount of galaxies (+800)

at enormous distance (+300 Mio lightyears)

The cluster is dominated by to large elliptical galaxies NGC 4874 and NGC 4889

The central star HD112887 is obviously part of our own milky way Galaxy and only sits at 265 lightyears.

5 hours of subs HaLRGB on ASI 1600

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Abell 1656 on Lacerta 250, Piet Vanneste