Markarian's Chain

[Snoani]

Good evening

I have been working on this image for over a month in between other targets and therefore it represents the longest project that I have attempted to date.  I came up against significant gradients and so it was a battle to get it to where I have finished, but unfortunately the colours are not entirely flat.  I will probably end up having an another attempt in which I manually flatten each of the RGB channels but that being said I am still pleased with this attempt.   

It was captured using an Meade 6000 80mm APO with 0.80x reducer, ZWO ASI 1600MM Pro, HEQ5 (belt mod) and contains 3h 50m of luminance, around 2h 30m of each RBG. 

Thanks for looking.  

[Kon]

Great image and nice capture. I was out seeing it  on my 8" Dob last night.