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Markarian's chain, David Wills (PixelSkiesAstro)

Markarian's chain

Markarian's chain, David Wills (PixelSkiesAstro)

Markarian's chain

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Markarian's chain had a late night to capture this didn't start imaging until 02:30 am. Taken on 12/01/2014 15 x600 secs. Counted 41 objects in total hard to believe a 80mm telescope can pick up so many galaxies. Annotated image can found here www.flickr.com/photos/nightcasper/11908347965/

Markarian's Chain is a stretch of galaxies that forms part of the Virgo Cluster. It is called a chain because, when viewed from Earth, the galaxies lie along a smoothly curved line. It was named after the Armenian astrophysicist, B. E. Markarian, who discovered their common motion in the early 1960s. Member galaxies include M84 (NGC 4374), M86 (NGC 4406), NGC 4477, NGC4473, NGC 4461, NGC 4458, NGC 4438 and NGC 4435. It's located at RA 12h 27m and Dec +13° 10′.

At least seven galaxies in the chain appear to move coherently, although others appear to be superposed by chance.

Camera: QHY8L CCD cooled to -20C

Guiding: PHD 9x50 Finder Scope,QHY5 Mono with IR filter ( Finder Guider )

Optics: Skywatcher ED80,Skywatcher 0.85x focal reducer

Filter: Astronomik CLS Filter

Mount: Skywatcher AZ EQ6-GT GEQ & Alt-Az Mount connected to the Sky X and Eqmod via HitecAstro EQDIR adapter

Image Acquisition: Maxim DL 5

Stacking and Calibrating: Pixinsight 1.8

Processing: Pixinsight 1.8

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Markarian's chain, David Wills (PixelSkiesAstro)

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