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Markarian's Chain against a sea of galaxies, Lee
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It's that time of year where we're seeing this pop up a lot. I think this will be the last broadband image until later in the year - the moon is up now so any clear nights before astro darkness disappears won't be worth chasing this further. Certainly one that's piqued my interest more that I expected for next year.

Just 19 x 300s Lum and 6 x 300s each of R, G and B on the last clear night recently. Taken with my RedCat and an Atik 460EX.

The lack of data is showing at full resolution (e.g. M86) but I've left it anyway. I'm loving M88 and some of the smaller NGC galaxies.

Captured with Voyager, calibrated & stacked in APP and processed in PixInsight.

Thanks for looking!

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Description: With the PGC list added to the PixInsight annotation, look at that sea of galaxies! I was blown away by just how many of the PGC circles had something very very faint in them!

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Markarian's Chain against a sea of galaxies, Lee