NGC 4274 and 4314: Within the Coma I Group, part of the Virgo Supercluster (Rob Foster)

NGC 4274 and 4314: Within the Coma I Group, part of the Virgo Supercluster

Revision title: Wide-field view, NGC 4274 Galaxy Group

Inspiration for deep space targets comes from unexpected places. Last week, I had just started a sequence on a tiny target, NGC 4676, The Mice Galaxies, when I saw Gary Imm's fabulous post on NGC 4314, so I changed over to that target instead.

What came out of that was a very interesting wide view of the 4274 Group of Galaxies, part of the Coma I Group within Coma Berenices. The first two versions loaded are cropped views of NGC 4314 and NGC 4274, but the final version is the wide view, which is the far more interesting view given the density of galaxies. Per Wiki, The Coma I Group of Galaxies are 47.3 million light-years distant, and actually in the foreground from the more distant Coma and Leo Galaxy Clusters which are approximately 321 million light-years and 330 million light-years distant, respectively. Interestingly, The Coma I Group is within the Virgo Supercluster, which also happens to include the Local Group of our own Milky Way Galaxy and M31, Andromeda Galaxy. NGC 4314 is a beautiful example of a barred spiral galaxy, and it noteworthy for the dense central bar and tightly wound arms. NGC 4274 is the namesake galaxy for this particular group within the Coma I Group.

There is something compelling with these types of wide-field images that hint at the vast scale of space-time.

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Title: NGC 4274 Cropped View

Description: Per Wiki, NGC 4274 is the foremost member of a galaxy group known as NGC 4274 group. Other members of the group are NGC 4173, NGC 4245, NGC 4251, NGC 4283, IC 3215, NGC 4310, and NGC 4314.

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Title: The NGC 4274 group, Annotated

Description: The NGC 4274 Group, using the Pixinsight AnnotateImage Script, including the PGC HYPERLEDA I catalog of galaxies (in blue). The 4274 Group is part of The Coma I Group in the Virgo Supercluster.

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Title: Wide-field view, NGC 4274 Galaxy Group

Description: Though the cropped views of NGC 4274 and NGC 4314 are interesting on their own, the wide-field view really captures the size and diversity of the entire group of galaxies.

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