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Image of the day 06/01/2021

    M84, M86 and others, meeus
    M84, M86 and others
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    M84, M86 and others

    Image of the day 06/01/2021

      M84, M86 and others, meeus
      M84, M86 and others
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      M84, M86 and others

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      I just can't get enough of this region of galactic concentration.

      So here is the zoom into the highlight region of the Markarian chain from the previous upload.

      About 6 hours of LRGB exposure at a dark site with average seeing and transparency.

      This time I tried to highlight the dimmer outer sections of galaxies. There is a barely visible tail in 11 o'clock direction from the left Eye galaxy. I think I would need to triple the exposure to cleanly separate it from the background.

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      M84, M86 and others, meeus