ACO 1656 Coma Supercluster

by CosmiQbr

Objects in field: NGC 4854, NGC 4860, NGC 4864, NGC 4865, NGC 4869, NGC 4871, NGC 4873, NGC 4874, NGC 4881, NGC 4883, NGC 4886, NGC 4889, NGC 4895, NGC 4898, NGC 4907, NGC 4908, NGC 4911, NGC 4919, NGC 4921, IC 3946, IC 3949, IC 3955, IC 3973, IC 4040, IC 4045, IC 4051

Equipment: Sky-Watcher Starlux 190MN / BK 190MN DS, ZWO ASI533MC Pro

Integration: 1h 5m

All the stars have been removed from this image. Every object you see is a galaxy. The Coma Cluster (Abell 1656) is a super cluster of galaxies that contains, by some estimates, over 10,000 identified galaxies. The cluster is an average distance of 321 million light years from Earth, but with a diameter of 20 million light years. In contrast, our own Milky Way has only 156 galaxies (large and…