NGC 4631 + NGC 4656

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Photo : 47 x 200 sec median - taken by David Langer, Mads J.N. Clausen, Claus Petersen , Søren V. Andersen, Michael Jensen.

Data :

2003-03-26 at '21:18:05' UT to '23:05:56' UT - combined with 2003-03-30' at '21:55:12' to = '22:39:01' - soon to come in colour.

The upper object is NGC 4631 - also called "the Whale Galaxy".

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Distance : of NGC 4631 : 30 000 000 lightyears !

See Chandras X ray image of this galaxy

Both objects are in the 110 best of the NGC list