Markarian's chain

[emyliano2000]

This is the start of my Markarian's chain project, well, more than half way actually as I want to make the fainter stuff show up a bit nicer and also reduce the noise in the final stack.

A few days ago I stacked what I gathered so far to see how it looks like and after adding the annotation in pixinsight I was shocked by the number of galaxies in the photo.

Eq3 Pro

TS65 quadruplet f6.5 imaging telescope

ZWO ASI294MC PRO cooled at -15°C

IDAS LPS-D2 2" filter

Qhy5 guide camera

9x50 finder-guider

 

131x300sec, 10.9 hours

 

Location: Bushey, Bortle 6

Date: 24.02.2020, 02.03 and 24.03.2020

 

Emil

 

 

Edited April 1, 2020 by emyliano2000

[MarkAR]

Nice haul.

[mackiedlm]

thats a fantastic image.

 

[kirkster501]

Very nicely done.  Extremely hard to process I found when I did mine.

[emyliano2000]

41 minutes ago, kirkster501 said:

Very nicely done.  Extremely hard to process I found when I did mine.

I found that too. All the galaxies were red when I started with it. I tried the photometric colour calibration in pixinsight but for some reason it couldn't solve the photo so I've done a star calibration in APP. Things started to look a bit better from there but I think there's a lot more that can be done with more data. 

Emil

[geoflewis]

A wonderful image Emil and yes, there are one or two galaxies in there..... 🤪

[Mark at Beaufort]

Excellent image - it shows when observing visually how to move along the chain - brilliant.