NGC 4410

NGC 4410
NGC 4410

NGC 4410 A/B and C and D (top right) are part of a galaxy group with around 12 members that are located around 360 million light years away. They appear to be connected by tidal bridges of stars and gas and are clearly interacting.
At the bottom the two blue face on spiral galaxies are NGC 4411a and b (PGC 40745) situated respectively approximately 60 and 72 million light years away.
The faint galaxy at right center is PGC 40640 for which there is no red shift data available.
The galaxies are found in the constellation of Virgo amidst a very busy field of very distant background galaxies.

Imaged in LRGB on my Planewave CDK 1000 at Observatorio El Sauce, Chile.

Image acquisition and processing: Mike Selby

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