Markarian's Chain, M84 and M86 and Neighbors (meteoritehunterjim)

Celestial hemisphere: Northern · Constellation: Virgo (Vir) · Contains: IC 3280 · IC 3303 · IC 3311 · IC 3344 · IC 3349 · IC 3355 · IC 3363 · IC 3382 · IC 3388 · IC 3393 · IC 3443 · M 84 · M 86 · M 87 · NGC 4374 · NGC 4387 · NGC 4388 · NGC 4402 · NGC 4406 · NGC 4407 · NGC 4413 · NGC 4425 · NGC 4431 · NGC 4435 · NGC 4436 · NGC 4438 · NGC 4440 · NGC 4446 · NGC 4447 · NGC 4458 · And 12 more.

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I have spent about a month trying to get all the bugs out of my widefield rig. It has never been in the observatory. It is an 80mm f6 ED that I put a digital focuser on. It took a few days to get that to work. I did not have enough tension on the Crayford that the EAF was driving. It was slipping and losing its mind. After fixing that I found I had an objective and focuser that were not aligned. I had to use my laser collimator and shim the focuser on one side of its mounting dovetail. then I had to fiddle around with the spacing of the flattener to the CCD camera that has never been used with this scope. Then I had to go back to a flat making light box I made 10 years ago because my led light panel was not giving me flats even close on this scope. Wow! never had so many issues with equipment. Finally, got to take some images and found that my new flats were not correcting my subs enough especially the green subs. I did some pixel math and got it much closer. I still had a couple issues in my background to fix in processing. There is nothing really special about this image except that I am maybe finally ready for my nebula work this summer.

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RA (center)	12h27m33s.56
RA (top/left)	12h23m34s.75
RA (top/right)	12h25m13s.38
RA (bottom/right)	12h31m30s.37
RA (bottom/left)	12h29m55s.23

Dec (center)	+13°10′17″.6
Dec (top/left)	+14°03′03″.7
Dec (top/right)	+11°59′42″.0
Dec (bottom/right)	+12°17′13″.7
Dec (bottom/left)	+14°20′43″.1

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