M85, NGC 4394 and a distant quasar..dslr

[Fabiomax (Fabiomassimo)]

Hello,
with light pollution from my site I had to do all these images in order to photograph the halo around M85. the field has, besides a large number of galaxies around the twentieth mag, a quasar that I have indicated in accordance with the NED.
criticism welcome!
Fabiomax
http://www.astrofabiomax.it/m85.html

[Lester]

Wonderful image Fabio, I also enjoyed viewing your website. Thanks.

[Hagar (Doug)]

Very, very nice. Love those background galaxies.

[Fabiomax (Fabiomassimo)]

Thank you for you have seen my image and my web site:-)
Cheers
Fabiomax

[madbadgalaxyman (Robert)]

M85 is arguably the weirdest of the Messier Objects.
While the central part of this object resembles an elliptical galaxy, its outer parts are very strange indeed.
Despite this, amateurs rarely image M85 due to the mistaken view that elliptical and S0 galaxies are "featureless".

I might eventually share my large collection of M85 images with IceInSpace.......there is no such thing as a "typical" appearance for an M85 image, as this galaxy has such a complex internal structure!

The outer asymmetric features of M85 mean that it cannot easily be shoehorned into any specific Hubble class, though if one is forced to put it somewhere in the orthodox Hubble Sequence, it is probably closest to an S0 galaxy in its appearance.

M85 is, in fact, of a galaxy type that is actually NOT in the orthodox Hubble Sequence. There would probably be several hundred galaxies to B=14 magnitude that share this distinction of not really fitting any known Hubble type!

But M85 does fit well into my personal "Rogues Gallery" of galaxies that have a morphology that is indicative of them having undergone a merger between galaxies.

cheers, Madbadgalaxyman

While the detail within E and S0 galaxies is invariably of low contrast, it can be very intricate and interesting; professional astronomers often resort to subtracting a smooth Model image from the actual image in order to show features that are only slightly brighter than the diffuse background light of a galaxy.

[Fabiomax (Fabiomassimo)]

Thanks for the analysis of this subject. Take details with the dslr is really hard thing. I think it is difficult even with the CCD and definitely need a telescope bigger than an 8 inch. Personally, I did a wavelett sull'alone to try to pull out of the morphology. More than this I can not do. Your analysis is very interesting. Also because M85 is not a subject of the most recovered.
Thank you,
Fabiomax

[Leonardo70 (Leonardo Orazi)]

Wonderful work Fabio...very interesting...

Ciao,
Leo

[Fabiomax (Fabiomassimo)]

Thanks Leo