Deep Sky Object in Spring
NGC4065 Group (Galaxy Group in Coma Berenices)



Date & Time: Feb 10 2024, from 26:14 to 27:08 JST(+0900)
Composed 10 shots with 6 minutes exposed
Optical: Meade 25cm(10") Schmidt-Cassegrain with conversion lens (f=1600mm, F6.3)
with IDAS LPS-P1 Light-pollution suppression filter
Auto-guided with Meade LX200 Equatorial & Lacerta M-GEN
Digital Camera: Nikon D810A
Location: Ooizumi, Hokuto city, Yamanashi pref.

Camera Settings: Recording Format...14bit CCD-RAW, converted to 16bit TIFF(4080×4080)
Device Size...20×20mm
Sensitivity...ISO4000, White Balance...Daylight



NGC4065 / Galaxy, type E
R.A.12h 04m 06.2s (2000.0)
Dec.+20°14' 07" (2000.0)
Apparent Size1.3×1.2'
Radial Velocity+6308km/s
Magnitude12.6
Distance330 million light yrs.
Group of Galaxies -
Other IDsUGC 7050, CGCG 98-42
CGCG 128-7, MCG +4-29-7
PGC 38156
It is a small galaxy group that floats about 330 million light-years away on the western outskirts of the constellation Coma Berenices. The elliptical galaxy NGC4065, visible in the lower right corner of the image, is the brightest, with a brightness of 12th magnitude and a size of just over 1 arcminute. The small galaxies are distributed into two groups, one in the lower right and the other in the upper left of the image, with about 20 member galaxies scattered within a span of about 30 arcminutes.
This galaxy group is located between the Leo Cluster (Abell 1367) and the Coma Cluster (Abell 1656), and it is considered part of the structure that connects these clusters belonging to the Coma Supercluster.

Numbers with 4 digits represent NGC #




Around NGC4045 & NGC4073

NGC4123, NGC4039


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