Markarian's Chain from Sea Level in Bortle 7 Skies (Norman Tajudin)

Celestial hemisphere: Northern · Constellation: Virgo (Vir) · Contains: IC 3303 · IC 3311 · IC 3349 · IC 3355 · IC 3363 · M 84 · M 86 · 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 · The Eyes

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Markarian's Chain from Sea Level in Bortle 7 Skies

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Always wanted to take a second shot at capturing Markarian's chain of galaxies from sea level. Definitely took a huge dent out of my disk drive storing all of the sub and calibrated files and really pushed my old gaming PC to its limits!

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Markarian's Chain is a string of galaxies that forms part of the Virgo Cluster, a large group of galaxies in the constellation Virgo. The chain was named after Benjamin Markarian, who discovered their common motion in the 1960s. The chain includes two bright lenticular galaxies, M84 and M86, that were first discovered by Charles Messier in 1781. The chain also contains two interacting galaxies known as Markarian's Eyes, NGC 4435 and NGC 4438. The whole chain can be observed within a single field of view with a telescope.

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RA (center)	12h26m24s.675
RA (top/left)	12h24m30s.683
RA (top/right)	12h24m37s.920
RA (bottom/right)	12h28m18s.260
RA (bottom/left)	12h28m12s.986

Dec (center)	+12°46′57″.70
Dec (top/left)	+13°22′11″.82
Dec (top/right)	+12°10′37″.95
Dec (bottom/right)	+12°11′39″.72
Dec (bottom/left)	+13°23′16″.60

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