Stare at the Eyes (NGC4438) ( Jose Carballada )

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Stare at the Eyes (NGC4438)

Link: https://astro.carballada.com/stare-at-the-eyes-ngc4438/

Imaging Telescopes Or Lenses: GSO 10" f/8 Ritchey-Chretien Truss Tube · TS-Optics Photoline 107mm f/6.5 FPL53 Triplet Apo
Imaging Cameras: ZWO ASI1600MM COOL · ZWO ASI183MM Pro
Mounts: Mesu-Optics 200 MK II · Sky-Watcher EQ6-R Pro
Filters: Astrodon Gen2 E-Series Tru-Balance Blue 36 mm · Astrodon Gen2 E-Series Tru-Balance Green 36 mm · Astrodon Gen2 E-series Tru-Balance Lum 36mm · Astrodon Gen2 E-Series Tru-Balance Red 36 mm
Accessories: APM-Riccardi Apo Reducer 0.75x M63 (APM-RIRED-M63-small) · Celestron Off-Axis Guider · MoonLite CSL 2.5 inch Large Format Crayford SCT/RC Focuser · MoonLite NiteCrawler 3.0" · TS-Optics Off-axis guider 9mm (TSOAG9G2) · TS-Optics TSFlat2 · ZWO EFW
Software: Main Sequence Software Sequence Generator Pro (SGP) · Pleiades Astrophoto PixInsight
Guiding Cameras: ZWO ASI174MM Mini · ZWO ASI290MM Mini

Dates:: March 11, 2021 · March 13, 2021 · March 14, 2021 · March 15, 2021
Frames:: Astrodon Gen2 E-Series Tru-Balance Blue 36 mm: 171×120″(5h 42′) (gain: 111.00) -15°C bin 1×1
Astrodon Gen2 E-Series Tru-Balance Green 36 mm: 179×120″(5h 58′) (gain: 111.00) -15°C bin 1×1
Astrodon Gen2 E-Series Tru-Balance Red 36 mm: 170×120″(5h 40′) (gain: 111.00) -15°C bin 1×1
Astrodon Gen2 E-series Tru-Balance Lum 36mm: 497×120″(16h 34′) (gain: 75.00) -20°C bin 1×1
Integration:: 33h 54′
Avg. Moon age:: 7.67 days
Avg. Moon phase:: 2.26%

RA center: 12h27m46s.23

DEC center: +13°00′54″.4

Pixel scale: 1.007 arcsec/pixel

Orientation: 0.373 degrees

Field radius: 0.401 degrees

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Resolution: 2310x1704

File size: 4.3 MB

Locations: AAS Montsec, Àger, Lleida, Spain

Data source: Own remote observatory

Remote source: Non-commercial independent facility

Close up to the Markarian's chain centred on the most strange galaxy there, in my opinion of course.

It's the Eyes galaxy (NGC4438) and it'is about 52 light years away and shows a highly distorted disk, including long tidal tails due to the gravitational interactions with other galaxies in the cluster and its companion the close NGC4435 (on the top).

Virgo cluster is a large cluster of galaxies, due that fact you could find other three NGC objects, other three IC and more than 30 galaxies from the PGC catalogue only on this frame.

Please check the annotated version here:

https://www.astrobin.com/fl1sox/C

It was necessary a long integration time of more than 33 hours to show all this details with my equipement.

Also, on the right down side is noticeable the glow generated by the M86 galaxy that does not appear on the frame.

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Description: annotated version, inverted

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RA (center)	12h27m46s.23
RA (top/left)	12h29m06s.12
RA (top/right)	12h26m27s.16
RA (bottom/right)	12h26m26s.52
RA (bottom/left)	12h29m05s.25

Dec (center)	+13°00′54″.4
Dec (top/left)	+13°15′02″.8
Dec (top/right)	+13°15′18″.1
Dec (bottom/right)	+12°46′46″.0
Dec (bottom/left)	+12°46′28″.1

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