Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Virgo (Vir)  ·  Contains:  IC 3258  ·  IC 3280  ·  IC 3303  ·  IC 3311  ·  IC 3349  ·  IC 3355  ·  IC 3363  ·  IC 3382  ·  IC 3388  ·  IC 3393  ·  IC 3443  ·  M 84  ·  M 86  ·  M 87  ·  NGC 4351  ·  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 4458  ·  NGC 4461  ·  And 8 more.
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This was a very fascinating target for me. A lot of the galaxies have interesting details and the number of galaxies in this picture was astonishing to me. I used the Pixinsight Annotate Tool and ASTAP to determine that there are 320 galaxies in this framing alone. With around 24h of integration I could make nearly all of visible.

The processing was a challenge because it was my first LRGB image. But I enjoyed the new workflow very much. A big thanks to Tommy Nawratil``'s youtube tutorials on LRGB processing in Pixinsight. They were very informative and helped a lot!

The real challenge was to get the colors right. Or at least how I imagine them to be right ;-)

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