New Image: NGC 4206 + 4216 + 4222

[dcrowson]

NGC 4206 (UGC 7260, IC 3064, PGC 39183 and others) is the bottom of the three galaxies at the left. This one is located approximately 61.5 million light-years away.

NCG 4216 (UGC 7284, PGC 39246 and many other designations) is the middle of the three galaxies at the left. This one is located approximately 49 million light-years away. The bright star at the bottom center of NGC 4216 is supernova 2024gy discovered by Koichi Itagaki on January 4th, 2024. More information can be found here - https://www.wis-tns.org/object/2024gy. I was surprised that it was still visible.

NGC 4222 (UGC 7291, IC 3087, PGC 39308 and others) is the edge-on galaxy at the top of the trio. This one is located approximately 64.5 million light-years away.

This field in Virgo has many more galaxies. See the annotated version for the locations of approximately 200 as well as the supernova.

Luminance – 18x600s – 180 minutes – binned 1x1
RGB – 8x300s – 40 minutes each – binned 2x2

300 minutes total exposure – 5 hours

Imaged on February 8th and March 9th, 2024 at the Whetstone Creek Conservation Area (Williamsburg, Missouri) with a SBIG ST-8300M on an Astro-Tech AT90EDT at f/6.7 603mm.

LRGB - https://www.flickr.com/photos/dcrowson/ ... 1/sizes/l/
LRGB annotated - https://www.flickr.com/photos/dcrowson/ ... 8/sizes/l/

A closer view of NGC 4206 and 4216 can be found here - https://www.flickr.com/photos/dcrowson/ ... 5/sizes/l/.



Dan

[jthommes]

Beautiful Galaxy field Dan!

I got nearly the exact same field back in 2017 with a 8300 sensor. It's amazing to still see the Supernova by Feb 8! Of course, absolutely not visible in my 2017 image.