Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg

Astrolab at the Landesternwarte Heidelberg, summer term 2026, September 28 - October 9 2026


Material for task 9 - Extragalactic astronomy



The Hubble classification - part IV: the VIRGO cluster


The galaxies investigated in the tasks 1 and 2 are flagged by purple triangles.
The central part of the cluster 75' in radius with M86 at its center is indicated in red.
It contains the following 24 galaxies with the obj-IDs:
8,9,10,11,13,14,15,16,17,21,25,26,27,28,30,31,32,34,35,36,37,38,72,73