Markarian's Chain

[Leonardo70]

There's a piece of sky in Virgo filled with a huge number of galaxies. A small piece show a chain called Markarian. I tried to shot in one clear night (-13°C), at my best.

This is the result:
http://www.starkeeper.it/Markarian.htm

Thanks for looking and i hope you enjoy it.

All the best,
Leo

[omegacrux]

Nice one
A lot going on there

David

[Larryp]

Very nice, Leonardo:thumbsup:

[RickS]

A lovely field, Leo, and nicely processed. You do have a few odd artifacts which are more visible at full resolution. I've attached a crop with one right in the middle of the image.

Cheers,
Rick.

[Leonardo70]

Thanks for comments.

@RickS : i forget to mention, there's a lot of asteroid traces. at end of my web page on the info table you may found this note:

"In the final image I found the traces left by at least 12 asteroids, I decided to not remove them. In the full resolution version, can be identified with a little patience.."

Sorry, its a deep image with a dusty background that i try to mantain.

All the best,
Leo

[RickS]

Thanks, Leo. I spent all my time looking at the beautiful image and didn't bother with the fine print :lol:

[astronobob]

Far oouut ! ! This level of AP sends shivers down my spine ! Top class stuff :thumbsup:

[leon]

Wow that is a beauty well done indeed.

Leon

[marc4darkskies]

A wonderfully deep and expansive vista Leo! Nice crisp stars and colour. A gorgeous image ! :thumbsup:

As a very minor critique, the cyan in NGCs 4388, 4438 and a couple of other smaller galaxies looks a bit out of proportion.

Cheers, Marcus

[mithrandir]

I can only be reasonably sure of four brighter than mag 15.6, Leo. (742) Edisona, (745) Mauritia, (1078) Mentha, (4107) Rufino. I'm guessing you shot the image somewhere around 01:00 UTC.

Could the others be satellites?

[gregbradley]

Ah, another wonderful Leo image. Beautiful!

Greg.

[strongmanmike]

A great result Leo, look at all the galactic cirrus dust :eyepop:...I like the Cyan tinted blue :thumbsup: ..don't worry about Marcus...I heard he want's to paint his observatory lime green :evil: :P

Mike

[multiweb]

Superb field as usual Leonardo. Altitude always win. :thumbsup:

[David Fitz-Henr]

Nice image Leo - well done!

[Leonardo70]

Thanks to all for comments.

I'll check the color, but i haven't a right amount of chrominance data for doing better.

All the best,
Leo

[ChrisM]

Wow! That's like your own mini Hubble ultra deep field...

Well done.

Chris

[kustard]

Impressive!

[alpal]

Hi Leonardo,
That is so nice - it's an image that shows the true splendour
of the huge number of galaxies in their cluster.
It's seems almost a miracle to pick all that up so brightly with a 106mm scope.

fine job.

Allan

[Suzy]

Beautiful, just so beautiful *sigh*.
This is one of my favourite regions in the sky.
Thanks for sharing Leonardo.:)

[astroron]

Beautiful Leonardo, I spent some time on this area on my last observing session. It is great to follow the line.
Cheers:thumbsup: