Trillions of Stars

 

A section of sky between the Constellations of Coma Berenices, Virgo and Leo Major. Taken with the Observatory Altair Astro 66mm Doublet Refractor and the astro-modified Canon 200d DSLR on the Star Adventurer equatorial mount. Credit: Pip Stakkert.

In late spring and early summer and when you look south from a dark northern hemisphere location, you are looking out from our Milky Way home into deep space. In the above photograph there are many other galaxies, most over 50 million light years distant which are comprised from literally trillions of stars. The following deep sky objects are visible in the image:

•       NGC 4206

• NGC 4216

• NGC 4254

• Coma Pinwheel

• Virgo Cluster Pinwheel

• M 99

• NGC 4302

• NGC 4374

• M 84

• NGC 4388

• NGC 4402

• NGC 4406

• M 86    

" We are not alone"