Big Lick Galaxy Group (Jeff Coldrey)

Celestial hemisphere: Northern · Constellation: Canes Venatici (CVn) · Contains: NGC 5350 · NGC 5353 · NGC 5354 · NGC 5355 · NGC 5358 · NGC 5371

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Big Lick Galaxy Group

Link to TIFF/FITS: https://www.astrobin.com/rawdata/publicdatapools/109/

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Big Lick Galaxy Group

Link to TIFF/FITS: https://www.astrobin.com/rawdata/publicdatapools/109/

Together with Hickson Galaxy Group 68, NGC 5371 makes up the Big Lick Galaxy Group in Canes Venatici. This seems an unusual name for this galaxy group, as I have struggled to visualise any tongue shape!

Some digging reveals the name for this stellar group was named after Big Lick (now known as Roanoke Valley in Virginia) … a big salt lick marsh where prehistoric megafauna gathered. These giant beasts attracted hungry prehistoric spear hunters when they found the valley. Soon thereafter, all that was left to kill was small game, and fish in the Roanoke River.

These galaxies are too northerly to be imaged from my location, so I have used the amateur public data kindly shared on AstroBin by Michael Lorenz.

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RA (center)	13h54m29s.396
RA (top/left)	13h52m50s.138
RA (top/right)	13h56m39s.562
RA (bottom/right)	13h56m09s.476
RA (bottom/left)	13h52m18s.180

Dec (center)	+40°23′26″.99
Dec (top/left)	+40°03′03″.18
Dec (top/right)	+40°10′52″.84
Dec (bottom/right)	+40°43′45″.85
Dec (bottom/left)	+40°35′53″.60

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