Markarian's Chain and M87

[Geoff45 (Geoff)]

I grabbed this one early Friday and Saturday at the last new moon weekend at Wiruna. It was a bit late in the season so it was transiting by the time darkness arrived. It is a 2 image mosaic and I could only get a bit over 2.5 hours on each pane before it got too low--not as much as I would have wanted.

Telescope: Televue NP101is

Mount: AP900

Camera: QSI540wsg

FOV: 1.5° x 2.6°

Processed entirely in PixInsight

The link with technical details is here https://www.astrobin.com/oe851i/

Higher res here https://www.astrobin.com/full/oe851i/0/

[gregbradley]

A wonderful vista Geoff. Great background stars frame this really well.

You did a great job of processing.

Greg.

[Geoff45 (Geoff)]

Thanks Greg. I was quite pleased with the way it came out in spite of the short exposure time.

[marc4darkskies (Marcus)]

An interesting and lovely field Geoff! Very nicely processed!

[strongmanmike (Michael)]

Who doesn't like a menagerie of galaxies?!..and this is a famous one, well captured Geoff

Do you still have the 12.5"?

Mike

[Geoff45 (Geoff)]

Originally Posted by marc4darkskies

An interesting and lovely field Geoff! Very nicely processed!

Thanks Marcus. Processing these days can be a little tricky. There are so many new cutting edge tools that there is always the temptation to push things too far.

Originally Posted by strongmanmike

Who doesn't like a menagerie of galaxies?!..and this is a famous one, well captured Geoff

Do you still have the 12.5"?

Mike

Thanks Mike. Yes I still have the 12.5”, but it’s taking a rest while I do some wide field stuff with the Televue.

[Dave882 (David)]

It’s such a fascinating field I never tire of images of this region. Really well captured too with stacks of detail and well framed.

[Ryderscope (Rodney)]

A wonderful collection of galaxies Geoff. The composition works well and applying a mosaic gives a nice panoramic perspective

[Geoff45 (Geoff)]

Thanks David and Rodney.