NGC 5371 and Hickson 68 (Mau_Bard)

Celestial hemisphere: Northern · Constellation: Canes Venatici (CVn) · Contains: NGC 5350 · NGC 5353 · NGC 5354 · NGC 5355 · NGC 5358 · NGC 5371 · PGC 200307 · PGC 2158719 · PGC 2158812 · PGC 2158820 · PGC 2158863 · PGC 2159194 · PGC 2159269 · PGC 2159560 · PGC 2159685 · PGC 2159764 · PGC 2159929 · PGC 2160896 · PGC 2160903 · PGC 2161383 · PGC 2161526 · PGC 2162332 · PGC 2163044 · PGC 2163227 · PGC 2165372 · PGC 2165425 · PGC 2166347 · PGC 2167034 · PGC 2167602 · PGC 2167940 · And 9 more.

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NGC 5371 and Hickson 68

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NGC 5371 and Hickson 68

I photographed this beautiful group during two half nights in April 2022. Moon was still in the sky at an angle of 65-70 degrees from the target.

NGC 5371 is a face-on spiral galaxy in the constellation Canes Venatici, 100 million light years away from Earth. Close to it and approximately at same distance is the Hickson 68 group including NGC5353, 5354, 5350, 5358, 5355. It seems that NGC5371 is interacting with Hickson 68 objects. All of them seem to be part of a filament joining the Coma Cluster NGC1656 with the Virgo Cluster.
In the background are visible countless more distant galaxies, for instance the ones in the lower part of this image here, close to the border.

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RA (center)	13h54m26s.352
RA (top/left)	13h57m21s.270
RA (top/right)	13h51m35s.900
RA (bottom/right)	13h51m34s.526
RA (bottom/left)	13h57m15s.652

Dec (center)	+40°23′09″.85
Dec (top/left)	+40°48′39″.32
Dec (top/right)	+40°49′20″.83
Dec (bottom/right)	+39°57′21″.43
Dec (bottom/left)	+39°56′42″.90

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