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Photographer:
Steve Busch
Location of Photo:
Henderson, NV
Date/Time of photo:
April 15-26, 2026
Equipment:
AP GTX 130mm Starfire, Mach 2, ZWO 2600 MC Pro
Description:
I pointed my telescope at the core of the Coma Cluster for about five hours. Instead of a field of pinpoint stars, what you see is a field filled with galaxies of many different shapes and sizes. The Coma Cluster is located approximately 320 million light-years away in the constellation Coma Berenices and contains more than 1,000 identified galaxies. My telescope cannot capture all of them, and you will not see much internal detail because the individual galaxies are extremely faint and often measure only a few arcseconds across. This image is less about fine detail and more about depth — a reminder of the immense scale and vastness of the universe.
