Messiers 49 & 59 and their friends

[geoflewis]

As I continue to work through Virgo cluster targets for my Messier collection, I imaged these two elliptical galaxies earlier this month, but only just got round to processing them today as its a cloudy night. There's nothing much to say about these large fuzzy blobs, hence posting them both on a single thread. As would be expected from galaxies in the heart of the huge Virgo cluster there are several other galaxies on view. Both images were captured with my QSI583wsg-5 camera, through my C14+Optec x0.67 telecompressor lens.

M49 (L=9x10m; RGB=7x5m each)

M59 (L=12x10m, RGB=7x5m each)

Thanks for looking.