MKW 3 in Virgo, a faint galaxy group

[Mike JW]

My first posting. I was capturing Arps in Virgo when I was informed of this galaxy group. All mag 15 galaxies. A mix of spirals and elliptical galaxies. I use a C 9.25 and an ultrastar camera. I am still getting use to finding the best settings so after capturing the image I fiddled about in photoshop  for 5 minutes to try to get rid of background grot and improved the contrast. The image is a stack of 6 x 10 second. I tend to use the sum feature in SLL whilst stacking. I also captured other galaxies in the image. Alvin Huey faint fuzzies, Selected Small Galaxy Groups is a helpful reference.

MWK 3 a galaxy group (7) in Virgo
Designation	PGC	Mag	Type
CGCG 12-91	36937	15.37	spiral
CGCG 12-93	36938	15.1	spiral
CGCG 12-95	36944	15.26	elliptical
CGCG 12-97	36948	15.49	spiral
CGCG 12-98	36950	15.93	spiral
CGCG 12-99	36951	15.8	spiral
CGCG 12-100	36962	15.25	spiral
CGCG 12-101	36969	15.31	elliptical

[Martin Meredith]

HI Mike, and welcome to SGL!

Great capture for such a short exposure. Its good to see these unusual groups. There's something about a chain of very similar mag galaxies that is appealing to observe.

Martin

[RobertI]

Very interesting group, thanks!

[Paul73]

You’ve caught some nice little faint ones there! 

Thanks for posting.

Paul