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    DEEP-SKY TOUR

    Feb 15, 2024 3 minutes

    1 NGC 4517

    Virgo is a sprawling constellation defined by the Bowl of Virgo asterism. Inside the Bowl lies the ‘Realm of Galaxies’, thanks to the presence of the Virgo Supercluster. NGC 4517 is in the less populated southern part of the Bowl. This mag. +10.4 galaxy is an edge-on spiral 9 x 1.5 arcminutes in size, 40 million lightyears away and a member of the Virgo II Cloud, a series of galaxies that stretches for 30 million

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