Northern Part of the Virgo Cluster with M88, M90, M91, M99, and M100 (Benno Schneider)

Celestial hemisphere: Northern · Constellation: Coma Berenices (Com) · Contains: 14.88 · 791 Ani · Coma Pinwheel · HD107088 · HD107170 · HD107196 · HD107253 · HD107254 · HD107255 · HD107288 · HD107303 · HD107304 · HD107342 · HD107363 · HD107384 · HD107415 · HD107686 · HD107702 · HD107726 · HD107810 · HD107811 · HD107855 · HD107907 · HD108239 · HD108301 · HD108348 · HD108487 · HD108559 · HD108613 · HD108775 · And 75 more.

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Northern Part of the Virgo Cluster with M88, M90, M91, M99, and M100

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Northern Part of the Virgo Cluster with M88, M90, M91, M99, and M100

This image was processed from a series of exposures taken on February, 20 and between 13 and 25 March 2023. During this period, the dwarf planet Ceres passed M91 and moved towards M100. The luminance images were used to make astrometric measurements of Ceres' position for a local astronomy club project (https://www.astrobin.com/76i69b/).

Because I was so impressed by the details and the beauty of this very field within the northern part of the Virgo cluster I took some RGB exposures as well and processed this image.

In this image all occurrences of Ceres have been removed.

I would like to thank Ernesto from telescope.live for his support with my project.

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Description: Processed with Ceres mostly eliminated during image integration. Residuals of the dwarf planet (1) Ceres and the asteroids (753) Tiflis and (410) Chloris removed with Photoshop in post processing. Color balance improved as well.

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RA (center)	12h27m59s.20
RA (top/left)	12h37m34s.14
RA (top/right)	12h18m24s.64
RA (bottom/right)	12h18m31s.32
RA (bottom/left)	12h37m26s.47

Dec (center)	+14°34′52″.6
Dec (top/left)	+16°07′49″.7
Dec (top/right)	+16°07′55″.2
Dec (bottom/right)	+13°00′20″.6
Dec (bottom/left)	+13°00′26″.5

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