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4 hours on Markarian’s Chain from a Bortle 2 zone, Antoine Grelin
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4 hours on Markarian’s Chain from a Bortle 2 zone

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4 hours on Markarian’s Chain from a Bortle 2 zone, Antoine Grelin
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4 hours on Markarian’s Chain from a Bortle 2 zone

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This image of Markarian’s Chain was taken with an Orion 8” Astrograph and the QHY128C.

I really wanted to capture M87 in there but it was impossible to fit it all using the ASI 1600MM. Using a full frame camera, the QHY128C, the framing was just perfect! 3 Messier objects are in there, M84, M86 and M87

Did 3 minute shots unguided with the MyT mount from Software Bisque.

All info can be found here as well as what the single shots looked like and the stacked image before processing: https://www.galactic-hunter.com/post/markarians-chain

I’m not very happy with a couple of ellipticals in there, as they look a bit overdone and maybe oversaturated but I’m not sure I’ll want to re process the whole thing again as I had a lot of issues with dust/back-focus/streaks that night for some reason.

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4 hours on Markarian’s Chain from a Bortle 2 zone, Antoine Grelin