The Fornax Galaxy Cluster - a photo on Flickriver

A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away...

A wide-field view of the Fornax Cluster, a cluster of Galaxies 62 million light-years from Earth. It is the second richest Galaxy cluster within 100 million light-years, after the considerably larger Virgo Cluster. It lies primarily in the Southern constellation Fornax, with its boundaries partially crossing into the constellation of Eridanus. The Galaxy Cluster covers an area of sky about 6° of arc across (and is a part of larger Fornax Wall).

NGC 1365 is the prominent Galaxy on the right, also known as "The Great Barred Spiral Galaxy", and on the left of the image NGC 1399 is the large Elliptical Galaxy.

A few quotes:
"There is an odd mannequin shape that is presented by the distribution of galaxies. This work has been done mainly by Margaret Geller with her collaborator John Huchra at Harvard University and the Smithsonian Institution. It's a little like soap bubbles in a bathtub or dishwashing detergent. The galaxies are on the surfaces of the bubbles. The insides of the bubbles seem to have no galaxies in them at all." - Carl Sagan - Cosmos - The Edge of Forever (S01E10).

The size and age of the cosmos are beyond ordinary human understanding. Lost somewhere between immensity and eternity is our tiny planetary home, the Earth." - Carl Sagan - Cosmos - The Shores of the Cosmic Ocean (S01E01).

About this image:
Imaged in LRGB over several sessions in October 2019 from the Southern Hemisphere.

Image Acquisition & Plate Solving:
SGP Mosaic and Framing Wizard.
PlaneWave PlateSolve 2 via SGP.

Integration time:
22 hours.

Processing:
Pre-Processing and Linear workflow in PixInsight,
and finished in Photoshop.

Astrometry info:
Center RA, Dec: 53.874, -35.727
Center RA, hms: 03h 35m 29.728s
Center Dec, dms: -35° 43' 37.706"
Size: 90.9 x 58.9 arcmin.
Radius: 0.903 deg.
Pixel scale: 3.41 arcsec/pixel.
Orientation: Up is 44.4 degrees E of N.
View an Aannotated Sky Chart for this image.
View this image in the WorldWideTelescope.

Also see:
The Markarian's Chain of Galaxies.

This image is part of the Legacy Series.

Martin
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Taken on: October 26, 2019

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