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M100 Wide Field, Dave Boddington
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M100 Wide Field

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M100 Wide Field

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M100 and wide field shot of this area of the Virgo cluster. The last one from a week of fabulous clear skies over Berkshire UK. Messier 100 (also known as NGC 4321) is a grand design intermediate spiral galaxy located within the southern part of constellation Coma Berenices. It is one of the brightest and largest galaxies in the Virgo Cluster, located approximately 55 million light-years distant from Earth and has a diameter of 107,000 light years. It was discovered by Pierre Méchain on March 15, 1781 and was subsequently entered in Messier's catalogue of nebulae and star clusters after Charles Messier made observations of his own on April 13, 1781. The galaxy was one of the first spiral galaxies to be discovered, and was listed as one of fourteen spiral nebulae by Lord William Parsons of Rosse in 1850. NGC 4323 and NGC 4328 are satellite galaxies of M100; the former is connected with it by a bridge of luminous matter. 8hrs Lum through Espri150/SX46 and 2.5 hours each RGB through piggybacked Esprit100/ASI1600. Processed in Pixinsight and Photoshop.

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