Derby and District Astronomical Society
Messier 84 (NGC 4374)
Elliptical Galaxy in Virgo RA 12h 25m 06s Dec +12d 53m 00s
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Elliptical galaxy M84 lies near the top edge of this image of the Virgo Cluster by Adrian Brown, taken on the night
of the 3rd April 2006. The picture was created from eleven 5 minute exposures taken with an ATK16HR camera and Astronomik LPR filter through
an 80ED refractor. Adrian comments that the Moon created fairly bright sky background gradients and that he removed these via Russell
Crowman’s GradientXTerminator plug-in for Adobe Photoshop. Elliptical galaxy M86 lies at the centre of the picture.
These and other members of the Virgo Cluster of galaxies are labelled in an annotated version of the image
below.
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