The Markarian Chain ...Boggling the Imagination (John Hayes)

Celestial hemisphere: Northern · Constellation: Virgo (Vir) · Contains: 13.36 · 508 Princetonia · IC 3303 · IC 3344 · IC 3349 · IC 3355 · IC 3363 · IC 3382 · IC 3388 · IC 3393 · IC 794 · M 84 · M 86 · NGC 4374 · NGC 4387 · NGC 4388 · NGC 4402 · NGC 4406 · NGC 4407 · NGC 4413 · NGC 4425 · NGC 4431 · NGC 4435 · NGC 4436 · NGC 4438 · NGC 4440 · NGC 4446 · NGC 4447 · NGC 4458 · NGC 4459 · And 8 more.

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The Markarian Chain ...Boggling the Imagination

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The Markarian Chain ...Boggling the Imagination

What an amazing area of the sky! It isn't a particularly colorful or spectacular object like many of the nebula that I've been shooting lately; but, it's an amazing area of the sky. In one 2 x 3 degree area, it doesn't take much exposure to reveal hundreds of galaxies. It boggles the imagination to think that each of these little splotches of light each represent billions of swirling stars. Near the middle of the group are the Eyes Galaxies (NGC 4435-NGC 4438, also known as Arp 120. These are a pair of galaxies about 52 million light-years away so their photons are ancient indeed. NGC 4435 has a slight bluish cast and takes its name from its surrounding dust structure which can just be seen in this image. This image is a crop of the Markarian Chain. The full frame shows what looks like hundreds of galaxies. Taken late on a winter night with a C14 + Hyperstar. C & C always welcome. Enjoy...

John

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Description: I took another look at this image after seeing Wei-Hao's excellent image and I was inspired to tweak the processing a little. In this new version, I adjusted the color noise, re-set the black point a bit lower, and slightly de-emphasized the star field. This image might benefit from a complete re-processing effort but this version simply picks up from where the first effort left off.

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RA (center)	12h28m17s.26
RA (top/left)	12h28m30s.65
RA (top/right)	12h23m13s.86
RA (bottom/right)	12h28m02s.92
RA (bottom/left)	12h33m18s.26

Dec (center)	+13°11′43″.2
Dec (top/left)	+14°28′05″.5
Dec (top/right)	+12°50′08″.3
Dec (bottom/right)	+11°54′48″.9
Dec (bottom/left)	+13°32′37″.8

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