Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Virgo (Vir)  ·  Contains:  M 87  ·  NGC 4486  ·  Virgo Galaxy
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M87 and its relativistic jet, Sergey Trudolyubov
M87 and its relativistic jet
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M87 and its relativistic jet

Acquisition type: Lucky imaging
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M87 and its relativistic jet, Sergey Trudolyubov
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M87 and its relativistic jet

Acquisition type: Lucky imaging

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A short luminance exposure showing the supergiant eliptical, M87 and its relativistic jet. This imaging season has been plagued by unstable weather and mediocre seeing, so it was essentially a test of how much jet detail can be extracted under those conditions. To get a more or less decent resolution, I resorted to using a series of 10 s unguided exposures at high camera gain (200). After filtering, only 128 "best" exposures with average FWHM in the 2.5"~3.0" range were used for final stacking. The standard Lucy-Richardson deconvolution procedure was used to bring out jet detail (its about 20" long and only a few arcseconds wide).

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Description: A close-up view of the M87 core and the jet

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M87 and its relativistic jet, Sergey Trudolyubov

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