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Markarian's Chain

Started by LD, 05/01/2006 06:56PM
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Posted 05/01/2006 06:56PM Opening Post
Larry Durst
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I am really loving shooting wide fields since getting my William-Optics ZS66 SD. (Haven't put the camera in my SCT since I got it.) Here is one from this weekend, a luminance only of Markarian's Chain, part of the Virgo Cluster. Definetely a tough (from my skies) but fun target. The bright galaxy on the right is M86/NGC4406, the chain winds up with NGC447 on the upper left. It's 95 minutes in all, mostly 60 second subs (some 45 seconds while checking out tracking), unguided.
Scope: ZS66SD with Meade .63 focal reducer
Mount: piggybacked on LX90
Camera: SX MX716
Acquired in AstroArt3, processed in AA3 with final curves (and cloning to remove hot pixels) in GIMP.
Thanks for looking and any suggestions to bring out details.
Larry

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Posted 05/01/2006 07:34PM #1
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Nicely done Larry!
This is a cool group of objects to image! 8)
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Posted 05/01/2006 10:48PM #2
Tyler Allred
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Really nice Larry! I love this area of the sky.
Nicely done.

I tried two 10-min frames of this area last night, but have yet to process them. I'll need to add some more data to it to get much detail.
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