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Douglas Rollain

Southern Milkyway (Canon t1i)

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NGC 4438 - 4435 "The Eyes Galaxies" image

NGC 4438 - 4435 "The Eyes Galaxies"

Contains: Deep sky object
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NGC 4438 and NGC 4435 ... "The Eyes" Galaxies, a part of Markarians Chain in the Virgo Galaxy Cluster. Note the extremely faint tidal tail on NGC 4435 going to the "right" of the picture. This was taken with a PlaneWave CDK 17 and an SBIG 16200 camera from Foresthill, CA.