M86, 87, 88 widefield

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Hi all

So, I've been playing with my 'realm of galaxies' image and have taken a cropped area out of the middle and tried to enhance it further and draw out the galaxies a bit better.

This shot covers M86 towards the middle-top, M87 towards the bottom right and M88 towards the bottom left... plus a load of other NGC galaxies including 'the eyes' below M86.

I'm fairly happy with how this has come out... with more than half an hour of data I recon some structure would start to show in some of them.

This was taken with a modded Eos350D with a Canon 200mm f2.8 prime lens on a HEQ5-Pro unguided. this was 40 second subs, a total of about 30 mins with darks and flats applied.

Cheers!

Ben

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...and here's another crop a little further up in Coma Berenices that includes M99 at the top (showing a bit of spiral structure) and M100 on the left hand side.

Cheers!!

Ben