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Virgo Cluster, Chris Longthorn
Virgo Cluster
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Virgo Cluster

Virgo Cluster, Chris Longthorn
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Virgo Cluster

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It is a mosaic of 4 frames, each frame was 5 exposures of 5 minutes each in LRGB filters, so total exposure time is 25 * 4 *4 = 400 minutes. Taken with ITelescope.net T20 which is a Takahashi FSQ106 on a Paramount in New Mexico, USA.

Stacked with MaximDL 5, processed in Photoshop and mosaicked with Microsoft ICE (Image Composite Editor).

I’ve had a hard look through it and the faintest galaxy picked up is fainter than magnitude 19. I have no idea how many there are in there altogether. The large galaxy in the middle is M87, and the following Messier objects are also captured, M58, M59, M60, M84, M86, M89,M90.

It took me 5 nights between the 15th and 23rd April.

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Virgo Cluster, Chris Longthorn