Four-year old data - Markarian's Chain (Richard Francis)

Celestial hemisphere: Northern · Constellation: Virgo (Vir) · Contains: IC 3303 · IC 3355 · IC 3363 · IC 3388 · M 84 · M 86 · NGC 4374 · NGC 4387 · NGC 4388 · NGC 4402 · NGC 4406 · NGC 4407 · NGC 4413 · NGC 4425 · NGC 4435 · NGC 4438 · The Eyes

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Four-year old data - Markarian's Chain

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Four-year old data - Markarian's Chain

Another image from the back-catalogue. In this case it's more than 4 years between data collection and processing. Partly that's because there were so few data (only 1h 20m). Luckily all passed the first quality control. But even so, it's not so much to make an image -- one day I'll collect more !

This image shows one end of Markarian's Chain (of galaxies). The whole, curved, chain extends to the right of this view about the same distance again, looping up to the upper right. They are part of the Virgo Cluster (a group of about 1300 individual galaxies centred about 54 million light years away from us -- relatively close).

The two large elliptical galaxies on the left were discovered by Charles Messier and so have the identifiers M84 and M86. The others are listed in the New General Catalogue (NGC). The group is named after Benjamin Markarian who, in the 1960's, found that the whole group had a common motion and so were linked.

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Status	Advanced success
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Astrometry.net job	10013346
PixInsight job	J7Z9NM6BU9C1AQ8JODIZ7U37XDN14SG0
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PixInsight stage	TASK_LOG

RA (center)	12h26m35s.625
RA (top/left)	12h24m39s.932
RA (top/right)	12h28m31s.932
RA (bottom/right)	12h28m31s.823
RA (bottom/left)	12h24m38s.975

Dec (center)	+12°54′03″.90
Dec (top/left)	+12°32′05″.99
Dec (top/right)	+12°32′16″.29
Dec (bottom/right)	+13°16′00″.77
Dec (bottom/left)	+13°15′49″.44

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