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Messier 85 and friends


petevasey

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Messier 85 in Coma Berenices is a large elliptical galaxy with an extended halo of stars, and appears to be interacting with a nearby smaller neighbour NGC 4394. I had never imaged them, and a crisp clear night last night (22nd March) gave me an opportunity. Unfortunately the seeing was very poor - even stars overhead were twinkling, so the stars are somewhat bloated and fine detail is lacking in NGC 4394 despite using the Starlight Xpress active optics unit. Hopefully I will get another opportunity this season, although the weather has generally been very poor. The small galaxy to the right of M85 is mag 14.8 IC 3292. QSI 683 on RC10 with AO unit. Luminance 11 x 15 minutes, RGB each 4 x 15 minutes, all binned 2x2.

Cheers,

Peter

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