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Markarian's Chain in the Virgo Galaxy Cluster, firstLight
Markarian's Chain in the Virgo Galaxy Cluster
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Markarian's Chain in the Virgo Galaxy Cluster

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Markarian's Chain in the Virgo Galaxy Cluster, firstLight
Markarian's Chain in the Virgo Galaxy Cluster
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Markarian's Chain in the Virgo Galaxy Cluster

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Another fully manual and improvised "balcony setup" due to Covid-19 nightly curfew. Here in the Alps, down in the valley between mountains and trees, the maximum time for a night sky target (including setup and test images) is only 2 hours. Finally a cloudless night after long with what was available between southeast and southwest: Leo, Vir and Com galaxies ... with my 300 mm daylight lens and DSLR.


Manual polar alignment by sun shadow from a vertical aligned (by eye measure) rod. Image frame setup by visual star hopping and test images - challenging with only faint stars and the optical DSLR viewfinder ...

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Markarian's Chain in the Virgo Galaxy Cluster, firstLight