Galaxy M84 and Galaxy M86 in Virgo

This is a pair of bright elliptical galaxies near the center of the Virgo galaxy cluster. M86 is the leftmost of this pair and is slightly more oblate than M84 usually being classified as either E3. This galaxy shows no red shift at all and is likely being ejected from the Virgo cluster.

Note that there are several other galaxies in this image -- including NGC4387 which lies between the pair. If you put your mouse over this figure, you will see several more of the galaxies in this cluster, most notably NGC4388, NGC4402, and NGC4435 and NGC4438 at the bottom. Again, if you hold the mouse down, you will see Markarian's chain.

Images taken with TEC-140 Telescope mounted on Losmandy G11 mount. Camera used was a Canon EOS20D used at prime focus.

Ten 3 minutes exposures dark, flat, and bias compensated, aligned and stacked, background removed and Digitaly Developed in ImagesPlus 2.50 beta 6. Noise removal using NeatImage.