Monday, April 27, 2020

Markarian's Chain - 87 Minutes


Part of Markarian's Chain of Galaxies in Virgo. These galaxies are anywhere from 40 million light years to 120 million light years away! Quite the time machine! This is an 87 minute stack of 1 minute captures. I'd like to get 3 hours total so I'll have to resume another night.
Zoom on in the annotated version to see the designations


87 Minute stack


Plate Solved annotation via http://nova.astrometry.net/

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