| Virgo Cluster |
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| R.A. | 12h 32m |
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| Dec. | +11° 30' |
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| Apparent Size | about 600' |
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| # of galaxies | >2500 |
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| Radial Velocity | +895km/s |
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| Magnitude | - |
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| Distance | 52 million light yrs. |
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| Supergalactic cluster | Virgo |
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Perhaps you will notice that there are many indexes of galaxies in the field of star chart of Virgo to Coma Berenices.
These dozens of galaxies are distributed in the spring sky of about 10 degrees diameter.
"The Virgo Galaxy Cluster", which contains about 2500 galaxies in a span of 12 million light years, is considered to be about 40 to 50 million light years distant.
This can be said the cluster is "extraordinarily close" to us.
So we can observe many of members only with amateur's telescopes.
This image presents a wider field (11.9×11.6°) including Virgo Cluster.
Around the central region, the cluster includes several Messier's galaxies relatively bright, an elliptical galaxy of M87, a spiral of M88, and so on.
(When this image was taken, the comet Tsushinshan-1 (62P) was positioned in the southern part of the Virgo Cluster by chance)
Numbers with 4 digits represent NGC #
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