[Placidus (Mike and Trish)]

Originally Posted by marc4darkskies

Very beautiful image M&T! I love galaxy groups and this one is a cracker!

Faint vertical bands across the frame though - some camera artefacts? Also a bit of a green cast going on - bottom left especially.

Thanks Marcus. The banding is patterned readout noise. It would go away if we did many more hours. We can also process it out. Will revisit.

Originally Posted by strongmanmike

Still on the mob phone out here...but gee, Im really enjoyin this one, come back to it a couple'a times, a great grouping.

Mike

Thanks Mike, we're much encouraged.

Originally Posted by cometcatcher

A beautiful pair that's for sure. Wonderful image.

Thanks, Kevin!

Originally Posted by Atmos

Really nice shot you've got there. It kinda has everything, young galaxies, old galaxies, active and "dead" galaxies

Cheers, Colin. A nice description.

Originally Posted by RickS

Lovely image, M&T Some very photogenic galaxies of all (apparent) sizes.

Astroplanner claims these galaxies are actually in Hercules?

Cheers,
Rick.

Hi, Rick. Thanks for spotting that. Mike's bad typing. The NGC numbers were out by 1000. This is now fixed in the original post, so they are now safely back in northern Virgo.

Best,
Mike and Trish