Abell 2162 in Corona Borealis (Michael Feigenbaum)

Celestial hemisphere: Northern · Constellation: Corona Borealis (CrB) · Contains: NGC 6085 · NGC 6086

Abell 2162 in Corona Borealis

Here we have Abell 2162, a galaxy cluster located in Corona Borealis. There is also a bit of Abell 2160 as well in the upper portion of the image. Both are located about 500 million light years away and are part of the larger Hercules Supercluster.

I have to thank Gary Imm for sparking this interest for me. That said, this one doesn't look like much, but it is...

I find these galaxy clusters to be a completely mind bending thing to even try to consider. In the revision "B", I annotated a bunch of galaxies with information I found on SIMBAD and using the Aladin Light application. I annotated about 30 of them but there are so many more. Just looking at this, a 1.4 x 0.9 degree FOV, there could be as many as 10 trillion stars in this field. Maybe 10x that.

Mind bending to think that a great many infinitesimally tiny carbon based creatures living on a "pale blue dot" can even begin to contemplate this and each one of the trillions of possibilities orbiting each of these stars.

I hope you like this one... Clear Skies and health to you all.

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RA (center)	16h12m25s.911
RA (top/left)	16h15m48s.350
RA (top/right)	16h09m30s.110
RA (bottom/right)	16h09m05s.200
RA (bottom/left)	16h15m19s.878

Dec (center)	+29°32′09″.14
Dec (top/left)	+29°55′20″.46
Dec (top/right)	+30°04′00″.72
Dec (bottom/right)	+29°08′42″.26
Dec (bottom/left)	+29°00′07″.60

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