Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Coma Berenices (Com)  ·  Contains:  Extremely wide field
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From Denebola to Vindemiatrix, Olivier PAUVERT
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From Denebola to Vindemiatrix

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From Denebola to Vindemiatrix, Olivier PAUVERT
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From Denebola to Vindemiatrix

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This is a mix of nine sessions taken with the omegon minitrack for seven of them and the brand new Star adventurer for the last two, which let me discover what WALKING NOISE is (what a curse !). However I managed to hide it, but need to dither.

When I first started astrophotography one year ago I took the exact same photo with a fixed mount and 50 x 8s exposures, 56000 ISO. The result was a black and white set of blurry spots that I guessed (for some) being galaxies. I had to take my revenge , and althought I have distorted stars on the borders and strange color artefacts on some stars, I'm very happy with all those tiny galaxies spread all over the field.

Virgo cluster contains 1300 galaxies and is 50 millions light years away.

Around 40 galaxies are visible on this image and the faintest stars around magnitude 15. I used drizzle x3 so the file is quite big. Feel free to zoom in...

Enjoy.

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Description: I finally managed to calibrate my monitor.

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From Denebola to Vindemiatrix, Olivier PAUVERT