Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Canes Venatici (CVn)  ·  Contains:  M 106  ·  NGC 4217  ·  NGC 4218  ·  NGC 4220  ·  NGC 4226  ·  NGC 4231  ·  NGC 4232  ·  NGC 4248  ·  NGC 4258  ·  NGC 4346
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M106, Darius Kopriva
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M106

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On this widefield you can see the galaxy M106 in the center and some small companion galaxies around it.

Messier 106 or NGC 4258 is a barred spiral galaxy with an apparent magnitude of 8.3 mag in the constellation Canes Venatici.

With a distance of about 23 million light-years the galaxy lies in the environment of several galaxy groups, as whose member the galaxy is listed depending on the author, for example the Ursa Major group, the Coma Sculptor group, the Canes Venatici I group or the Canes Venatici II group. The galaxy has a diameter of about 135,000 light-years.

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M106, Darius Kopriva