Markarian's Chain one-nighter.

[ollypenrice]

Nice clean run on the TEC140/Avalon Linear Fast Reverse/Atik 11000 mono with guest Kris Delcourte. This is a night's worth with 15 minute L subs and 10 mins for the colour, a total of 385 minutes.

Bigger is here; http://ollypenrice.smugmug.com/Other/Best-of-Les-Granges/i-GBXJMHV/0/O/Marklarians%20Chain%20Les%20Granges%20385%20mins.jpg

Olly and Kris.

[michael.h.f.wilkinson]

Lovely shot. Maybe tonight will be clear, and I will have a look myself (would love to do that run with Sir Isaac, but that must wait )

[Stephen Green]

 What a great image

  Stephen

[kirkster501]

I love this one Olly.  Fabulously brilliant if I may say so.  A very interesting area is this, i spent two hours with my Dob on it the other night when i took it to dark skies near Brailsford in Derbyshire.

[michael.h.f.wilkinson]

Just had a look, but conditions were not good enough to spot the whole chain at large exit pupil. The eyes were very nice however (although this image shows a lot more detail)

[johnrt]

Smashing image, you can do in 6 hours what it takes us with rubbish skies 20+ to achieve.

[morimarty]

A beautiful clean image Olly, Bigger is always better in my book?

[si@nite]

Very inspiring, lovely image!

[Uranium235]

Nice work Olly. I tried a mosaic of this area a couple of weeks ago.... I couldnt get the background flat for toffee! Perhaps youve convinced me to have another go  

[ollypenrice]

Thanks. I'm certainly going to give this another night because, although small at this focal length, The Eyes turned out to be really special with sweet core detail and a surprising amount of blue in the tidal arms.

Olly

[iksose7]

Looking very nice Olly, making good use of that colour data. Are you tempted at all to go after the interstellar light?

Callum

[StuartJPP]

Very nice Olly, 6 hours of acquisition time in one night is nice...don't get that here in the UK often as usually 25% of subs are ruined by passing cloud.

[codeman]

Very nice image!

[Twisted Lip]

Absolutely smashing, I love it.

Will

[schmeah]

Terrific image!

Derek

[astroman001]

Wow, one of the best 'chain' images I have seen.

Peter

[MikeODay]

Wonderful image. To me it has a subtle 3d feel that gives it a sense of depth. Well done.

[Coolhandjo]

thats great - so much to look at.