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Markarian's Chain - Widefield LRGB, Olly Barrett
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Markarian's Chain - Widefield LRGB

Markarian's Chain - Widefield LRGB, Olly Barrett
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Markarian's Chain - Widefield LRGB

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Markarian’s Chain is a string of galaxies near the core of the Virgo Galaxy Cluster and was named after Benjamin E. Markarian, an Armenian astrophysicist who was the first to discover that the galaxies share a common motion through space. These galaxies are approximately 50-55 Million Light Years away...Markarian’s Chain contains at least 7 different galaxy members that appear to move coherently: notably the 2 huge, bright lenticular galaxies known as M84 and M86 (both members of the famous Messier Catalogue of deep-sky objects)...The Chain also contains a duo of interacting galaxies often referred to as Markarian’s Eyes: NGC 4435 and NGC 4438.
The Virgo Cluster is a galaxy cluster that contains up to 2,000 galaxies and is gravitationally interacting with our own local group of galaxies.
Its centre is about 70 million lightyears from Earth...

Captured in widefield using LRGB filters with my Redcat 51...

M87, the large galaxy bottom centre in the image, has been observed by the HST ejecting sub-atomic particles in a huge jet which is 5,000 light years in length…
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Clear Skies!!!
Olly

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Markarian's Chain - Widefield LRGB, Olly Barrett