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Virgo Galaxy Cluster
Exposure Data
- Image Field of View: 3.43° x 2.29°
- Camera Field of View: 3.8° x 2.54°
- Scope: 70 mm ED doublet refractor
- Focal Length: 336 mm with 0.8x focal reducer
- Focal Ratio: f/4.8
- Camera: Modified Canon Digital Rebel XS (1000D)
- ISO: 1600
- Exposure: 50 x 180 seconds (150 Minutes total)
- Filter: Minus Violet
- SQM: 20.81
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The Virgo Galaxy Cluster is a collection of more than two thousand galaxies that forms the heart of the Local Supercluster of galaxies. Hold your mouse cursor over the image to see the identifications of the brightest galaxies in the image. This cluster is located in the constellation of Virgo.
This galaxy cluster is dominated by the gigantic elliptical galaxies M86 and M84 at lower right. Another enormous elliptical galaxy, M87, is at the bottom center. M87 is the dominant galaxy in the cluster and is located close to the center of it. At lower left are M89 and M90, and at upper left are M91 and M88.
The Virgo Cluster lies at a distance of 48 million light-years and is at the center of our Local Virgo-Coma Supercluster.
Our own galaxy, the Milky Way is also part of the Local Supercluster.
North is to the top in the above images.
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Virgo Cluster
- Catalogs:
- M84, NGC 4374
- M86, NGC 4406
- M87, NGC 4486
- M88, NGC 4501
- M89, NGC 4552
- M90, NGC 4569
- M91, NGC 4548
- Common Name: Virgo Cluster
- Object Type:
- M84: E1 Galaxy
- M86: E3 Galaxy
- M87: cD0-1 pec Galaxy
- M88: SA(rs)b Galaxy
- M89: E0-1 Galaxy
- M90: SAB(rs)ab Galaxy
- M91: SB(rs)b Galaxy
- Magnitude:
- M84: 9.2v
- M86: 8.9v
- M87: 8.6v
- M88: 9.4v
- M89: 9.9v
- M90: 9.4v
- M91: 10.1v
- Size:
- M84: 6.5' x 5.6'
- M86: 8.9' x 5.8'
- M87: 8.3' x 6.6'
- M88: 6.8' x 3.7'
- M89: 3.5' x 3.5'
- M90: 9.5' x 4.4'
- M91: 5.2' x 4.2'
- Constellation: Virgo
- Image Field Centered At:
- RA: 12h 30m 46s
- Dec: +13° 26' 41"
Exact location data for the individual major galaxies in this image can be found in the Master List.
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