Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Virgo (Vir)  ·  Contains:  IC 3355  ·  IC 3393  ·  M 84  ·  M 86  ·  NGC 4374  ·  NGC 4387  ·  NGC 4388  ·  NGC 4402  ·  NGC 4406  ·  NGC 4407  ·  NGC 4425  ·  NGC 4435  ·  NGC 4438  ·  NGC 4458  ·  NGC 4461
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Markarian's Chain, Jacob Heppell
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Markarian's Chain

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Markarian's Chain, Jacob Heppell
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Markarian's Chain

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Markarian's chain; a string of galaxies that reside in the Virgo cluster. The feature galaxy appears to be the elliptical Messier 86 (just right of center)(big fuzzball!!) but fortunately there are a few spirals around to add some details and color such as the eye's galaxy (NGC4438 and NGC4435)(left of center) among others.

Ideally I would have liked to get two nights worth of LRGB data on this one as there is only about half a night when the target was at a decent altitude (>30 degrees) from my location in southern WA, Australia. Nevertheless I could make do!

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Markarian's Chain, Jacob Heppell

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