XF9Markarian's Chain<br>
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This is a group of galaxies in the Virgo constellation. The brighter ones, including M84 and M86 on the right side, appear to be placed on a curved line. But there are so many background galaxies! I had the image annotated and while it did annotate galaxies that aren't in the image (because they are so dim) it show just how many of these are in there.<br>
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This is a target I wanted to shoot for quite some time. Unfortunately it's low, right in a light dome, and mostly obstructed by trees and houses. It just so happend that the timing was near perfect the last week, so all these constraints aren't as serve.<br>
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I've taken this one with my Newtonian telescope I'm still working on, While I did figure out the focusing issues and contrast there are still things to tweak and improve.<br>
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