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Markarian's Chain and Surroundings, Philipp Weber
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Markarian's Chain and Surroundings

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Markarian's Chain and Surroundings

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Markarian's Chain of galaxies is a nice example of how crowded and at the same time vastly empty deep space is. Not only the galaxies of the prominent chain itself but also a lot of smaller ones in the background are visible. I recommend opening the image with its full size and zoom and pan around the background, it's quite stunning.

On a technical note: My supposedly good quadruplet flat field apo apparently shows some chromatic aberration around the bright stars.

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Markarian's Chain and Surroundings, Philipp Weber