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Markarian's Chain and M87 Mosaic, AwesomeAstro
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Markarian's Chain and M87 Mosaic

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Markarian's Chain and M87 Mosaic, AwesomeAstro
Markarian's Chain and M87 Mosaic
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Markarian's Chain and M87 Mosaic

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When I had first imaged Markarian's chain earlier this year, I had focused on including the galaxy that was the subject of the recently captured black hole picture. However, I mistakenly thought it was the one in the main part of the chain (M86) instead of M87! I went back earlier this year and got a very small amount of overlapping data on M87 as well so I could combine them all into a single image.

I can't say enough about how well PixInsight handles mosaic creation, allowing a seamless comination of the images while equalizing their fluxes right around the boundary. Had to do some intense mask work to even things out since there was only 48 minutes of data on the M87 panel.

Here is Markarian's chain and M87!

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Markarian's Chain and M87 Mosaic, AwesomeAstro