Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Canes Venatici (CVn)  ·  Contains:  NGC 4627  ·  NGC 4631  ·  NGC 4656  ·  NGC 4657  ·  Whale Galaxy
Whale and Hockey Stick, Clint Lemasters
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Whale and Hockey Stick

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Whale and Hockey Stick

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Added another 4 hours of integration time from the last photo. Reprocessed both data sets from ground up. 

"The Whale is distorted due to its interaction with NGC 4627 just to its left. The Whale shows classic galaxy colors, with a yellow core, blue star clusters and pink nebulae. It is about 25 million light years away. The Hockey Stick, lying about 30 million light years distant, is distorted by a small galaxy just off the tip of the “blade.”"
-https://astrodoc.ca/whale/

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Whale and Hockey Stick, Clint Lemasters