Virgo Cluster - 350D - 27-03-08

[jcm]

Poor conditions but I have been trying to image this region for 2 weeks so I gave it a go anyway.

130mm APO , F4.8 , Canon 350D at 800 ISO , 15 X 3mins.

Did not spend much time processing as seeing tonight was not good. Will try again when conditions improve - when ever that may be.

Map from Guide 8 below image. Added map with an image scale closer to photo.

Added second image - slightly larger and also trying to make the galaxies clearer.

John

[RobH]

Lovely wide shot. You've gone very deep for 3 minutes, there's a lot to look at here. Nice one :hello1:

Rob

[Paxo]

Excellent widefield jcm - well worth the wai. I can't wait to see what detail you pull out with better conditions more/longer subs.

Steve..

[jcm]

Steve , I think it is so wide field that its difficult to pick out the galaxies

John

[Cloudwatcher]

Very smart!

I had a bash at Markarian's Chain last year with the 350D but the result was nowhere near as good.

Cheers

CW

[Andrew*]

Stupendous! These galaxy clusters are just awe-inspiring!

Andrew

[brendant]

Superb widefiled JCM, excellent amount of detail in there, well captured.

Brendan

[Roy Batty]

Well done, that's a great capture considering the not ideal conditions last night.

RB

[saturn5]

Superb JCM, a lot of detail in there.

[algol]

wow fella thats the ticket that is wish i couldsee that lol, thought i'd have a dip round the virgo leo bit last night however the sky had a strange hazy cast to it that kinda killed any hope of finding faint fuzzies

[jgs001]

Wow, Very very nice

[Sam]

:shock: :shock: Look at all those galaxies!!! Wow what a shot!

[jcm]

Thanks everyone. Working at F4.8 means that the sky background lightens very quickly - that's why I could only get 3min subs ( also last night there was a great deal of high cloud/haze etc)

If I have another go at F6 this might give more detail and enable longer subs. I would of course loose some of the FOV.

John

[SteelRat]

That's such a great shot John 8) Good work.

Cheers

Matthew(SR)

[markcol]

Lovely shot of a fascinating area, John!

Mark

[cygnusx1]

JCM, fabulous :hello1:

thats definitely spurred me on to try a shot at it tonight, i love all thos dso's floating around- so wind permitting, looks :stars:, sshhhh i didn't say a thing

[steppenwolf]

Excellent, you've captured loads of interesting stuff.

[zhgutas]

Blimey that's good!! I do prefer wide fields in general, but when they are filled with nice galaxies.. who could resist?

Marius

[jcm]

Had a go at making the galaxies a bit clearer.

Also made the image a bit bigger.

Added new pic to first post.

John

[MartinB]

Beautiful work John. A stunning image