Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Virgo (Vir)  ·  Contains:  M 84  ·  M 86  ·  M 87  ·  M 88  ·  M 90  ·  NGC 4374  ·  NGC 4388  ·  NGC 4402  ·  NGC 4406  ·  NGC 4425  ·  NGC 4435  ·  NGC 4438  ·  NGC 4459  ·  NGC 4461  ·  NGC 4473  ·  NGC 4477  ·  NGC 4486  ·  NGC 4501  ·  NGC 4531  ·  NGC 4569  ·  The Eyes
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Markarian's Chain in LRGB, Douglas J Struble
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Markarian's Chain in LRGB

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Markarian's Chain in LRGB, Douglas J Struble
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Markarian's Chain in LRGB

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While my main AP Mach1 mount is in for warranty repair, I am forced to use my portable Celestron AVX mount. Bad time of the year, as I am in small galaxy season here where I am. I tried to make the best of it using my SV70T with reducer in doing the Markarian's Chain in a pretty good wide field revealing a couple other small galaxies. Feel free to zoom in and check 'em out.

Markarian's Chain is a stretch of galaxies that forms part of the Virgo Cluster. When viewed from Earth, the galaxies lie along a smoothly curved line. Charles Messier first discovered two of the galaxies, M84 and M86, in 1781. The other galaxies seen in the chain were first mentioned in John Louis Emil Dreyer's New General Catalogue, published in 1888. It was ultimately named after the Armenian astrophysicist, Benjamin Markarian, who discovered their common motion in the early 1960s. Member galaxies include M84 (NGC 4374), M86 (NGC 4406), NGC 4477, NGC 4473, NGC 4461, NGC 4458, NGC 4438 and NGC 4435.

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Markarian's Chain in LRGB, Douglas J Struble