A bunch of Messier's galaxies (and plenty of NGCs)

[Avocette]

After Markarian's Chain and the Coma Galaxy Cluster, I thought I would have a go at capturing a similar group of galaxies in Virgo including M58, M59, M60, M87,M89 and M90. The image includes plenty of NGC galaxies as well especially noteworthy perhaps the 'Siamese' Twins NGC 4567 and 4568. 

The image is the result of a stack of the best 16 of 20x240 seconds captures on my astromodified Canon EOS 550D (stacked in APP, non-linear processing in StarTools1.7). The scope is a SharpStar 61EDPH II with matching FR/FF operating at 275mm and f4.5 with no filter, mounted on AZGTi with ZWO mini scope and ASI120MC-S guide camera. All controlled by KStars/Ekos/Indi (astroberry).   Flats have corrected for the 'DSLR mirror shading' along the bottom edge of the image, but, of course, not an interesting diffraction spike on rho Virginis which is just at this edge.

The following is an edited screenshot from SkySafari 6 Pro which may help to direct attention to the NGC objects.

The next image is a zoom in of 27 and rho Virginis from the original image.

 

Edited April 12, 2021 by Avocette

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There is some fantastic little details in there when zooming around into it, well done!