NGC 4123 (top right) is a spiral galaxy in Virgo located around 108 million light years from here based on Cal Tech estimates. It contains a number of active star formation regions. NGC 4116 (bottom left) is a barred spiral galaxy with distance estimated at 100 million light years. It should be noted that distance calculations for these two galaxies vary greatly with the Caltech estimates at the high end of the scale.
We believe this is the first clear amateur image of these two galaxies.
Imaged in LRGB at Observatorio El Sauce, Chile on our Planewave CDK 1000.
Image Processing: Mike Selby and Mark Hanson
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