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