A Portion of Markarian's Chain in Monochrome (Michael Feigenbaum)

Celestial hemisphere: Northern · Constellation: Coma Berenices (Com) · Contains: IC 3280 · IC 3303 · IC 3344 · IC 3355 · IC 3382 · IC 3388 · IC 3393 · M 84 · M 86 · NGC 4374 · NGC 4387 · NGC 4388 · NGC 4402 · NGC 4406 · NGC 4425 · NGC 4435 · NGC 4438 · NGC 4446 · NGC 4447 · NGC 4458 · NGC 4459 · NGC 4461 · NGC 4468 · NGC 4473 · NGC 4474 · NGC 4477 · NGC 4479 · The Eyes

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A Portion of Markarian's Chain in Monochrome

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A Portion of Markarian's Chain in Monochrome

I had grand plans of getting this LRGB image done of Markarian's Chain as a running start into galaxy season. Learned a very valuable lesson.... Don't waste ones time trying to do good RGB under a moon.

I was able to get a fairly nice luminance image though, and thought I would publish it. the RGB image will have to wait until later in the month...

Edit 4/16/2019: I had posted this and was quite unhappy with the way it appeared when I published it. A lot of the detail did not appear that was visible to me in PI and when I saved it as a png file. So it was up on AstroBin for about 5-minutes and then I deleted it with the thought of waiting until I completed all the RGB and assembled a final image. But... it reappeared!!

So I guess I will leave it here and perhaps upload a revised image if I can get it to save such that the galaxy details that I can see appear in the png file.

CS to all!!

Mike

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Description: I added in all the RGB integrations and then extracted the luminance to update this. It seemed to quiet the noise quite a bit....

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Status	Advanced success
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Astrometry.net job	2645521
PixInsight job	PJNLM00OB8VSFQRW8ZYE9CV0VVXGC7C4
PixInsight queue size	n/a
PixInsight stage	TASK_LOG

RA (center)	12h27m19s.11
RA (top/left)	12h30m11s.69
RA (top/right)	12h23m08s.41
RA (bottom/right)	12h24m27s.71
RA (bottom/left)	12h31m28s.86

Dec (center)	+13°23′08″.8
Dec (top/left)	+14°14′11″.4
Dec (top/right)	+13°48′32″.6
Dec (bottom/right)	+12°31′55″.1
Dec (bottom/left)	+12°57′22″.5

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