Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Coma Berenices (Com)  ·  Contains:  IC 3238  ·  IC 3244  ·  IC 3258  ·  IC 3280  ·  IC 3303  ·  IC 3311  ·  IC 3327  ·  IC 3344  ·  IC 3349  ·  IC 3355  ·  IC 3363  ·  IC 3382  ·  IC 3388  ·  IC 3392  ·  IC 3393  ·  IC 3409  ·  IC 3432  ·  IC 3435  ·  IC 3442  ·  IC 3443  ·  IC 3453  ·  IC 3457  ·  IC 3459  ·  IC 3475  ·  IC 3476  ·  IC 3478  ·  IC 3489  ·  IC 3492  ·  IC 794  ·  IC 797  ·  And 41 more.
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Markarian's Unchained as Practicing Social Distancing

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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 discovered by William Herschel and are now known primarily by their catalog numbers 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.

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This turn out just ok, I take 4x300 each RGB but due to tracking issue which I believe was a result high winds I just use 1 sub from each filter. Oh well!

Is pretty cool four Messier objects in one image!

So not much colour but was interesting project.

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Markarian's Unchained as Practicing Social Distancing, Sigga