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 )
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.

[theodog (Jeff)]

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

[renormalised (Carl)]

Really, really nice looking wide angle shot

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

[strongmanmike (Michael)]

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


Mike

[jase (Jason)]

A lovely galaxy cluster Terry. Well done.

[iceman (Mike)]

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

[Terry B]

Originally Posted by 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?

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 (Clive)]

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

[Lester]

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