Astronomy Friday — Messier 84

Messier 84 is an elliptical galaxy in Virgo and part of the massive Virgo galaxy cluster. In this photo, Messier 84 is on the lower right with the nice spiral galaxy NGC 4388 above it. As shown in the Astrometry.net data below, there are seven other galaxies in the photo.

15x3.50 secs; Lodestar Pro Mono; Starblast 114mm Autotracker; Starlight Live

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