Markarians Chain (Dan Kusz)

Celestial hemisphere: Northern · Constellation: Virgo (Vir) · Contains: IC 3258 · IC 3280 · IC 3303 · IC 3311 · IC 3344 · IC 3349 · IC 3355 · IC 3363 · IC 3382 · IC 3388 · IC 3393 · IC 3432 · IC 3442 · IC 794 · 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 · NGC 4446 · And 11 more.

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44 days of clouds, I'm running out to my car to grab something and I look up.....S$*T!!! I see stars!!!

I run back in toss the gear outside, only my Esprit 80 was ready, fasted polar alignment in history and no moon. Slims pickings on what to shoot at the spur of the moment, but I found something on my list for later this year and the moon and weather cooperated.

It is just a quick integration, only managing just under 4 hours, but it was all around the zenith so decent seeing. I was surprised to see so many faint galaxies, actually I was taken back. How vast the universe is even from this little patch of sky!

I also grabbed 3 hours on M45 which I'm processing soon. Two quick targets one night, no sleep, and clouds are back. It was a frantic night, but that's what we do!

Cheers, be well, and Clear skies

Dan.

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Description: Isolated and worked on color for NGC 4438

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Description: Darkened up back ground, did some more sharpening on galaxies, and a round of TGV denoise.

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Description: playing with new NR tools on old data

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RA (center)	12h27m30s.65
RA (top/left)	12h29m46s.84
RA (top/right)	12h32m05s.80
RA (bottom/right)	12h25m12s.96
RA (bottom/left)	12h22m57s.83

Dec (center)	+13°15′00″.3
Dec (top/left)	+11°53′21″.2
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Dec (bottom/right)	+14°36′37″.1
Dec (bottom/left)	+12°17′13″.1

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