Galaxies Galore. M86 M84 and others

[Terry B]

Dear All
I was finally able to take some pics last night after the cloud has finally gone along with some visitors.;)
The image is of the many galaxies in Virgo including M86, M84, NGC4438, 4435, 4402,4425, 4388, 4387 and some dimmer ones.
It is a stack of 11 x 5 mins (I took 12 but one had a plane trail :shrug: )
Processed with flats, darks etc in Iris.
Taken with my 40D on a VC200L with a focal reducer at f6.5.
It was 2 deg C when I took these. Not much thermal noise but some teeth chattering. :cold:

[theodog]

Nice one Terry,
'recon us country folk have got them city slickers beat with galaxies.
Just like in the footy on Friday night.:lol:
Well done -looks good.:)

[renormalised]

Really, really nice looking wide angle shot:)

You certainly have lots of faint fuzzies in the piccie!!!.

[strongmanmike]

A great shot of a very famous and very interesting galaxy cluster, nice work :thumbsup:


Mike

[jase]

A lovely galaxy cluster Terry. Well done.

[iceman]

Nicely done, Terry. There doesn't appear to be much colour in the shots though - was it somehow reduced in post-processing, or is there just not that much colour in that region?

[Garyh]

Very nicely done Terry! I love galaxy cluster pics.
yeah cold here to the last few nights but the camera is lovin it :)
:thumbsup:

[Terry B]

Thank you all
THere just isn't much colour there. I tried ramping up the saturation but it just looked wrong. The galaxies are mostly very old with little star formation so minimal H2 regions.

[Ric]

Great looking image Terry, you captured a lovely assortment of galaxies in this one.

A fine image.

[Alchemy]

nice smooth pic there, just heaps of faint galaxys showing up too:thumbsup:

[Lester]

Top image Terry. Your set-up is performing well.