ScienceDownEast | ScienceDownEast Astrophotography | Galaxies | Markarian Chain | Markarian Chain and Neighbouring Galaxies Annotated
"Markarian's Chain is a stretch of galaxies that forms part of the Virgo Cluster. When viewed from Earth, the galaxies lie along a smoothly curved line. Charles Messier first discovered two of the galaxies, M84 and M86, in 1781. The other galaxies seen in the chain were discovered by William Herschel and are now known primarily by their catalog numbers in John Louis Emil Dreyer's New General Catalogue, published in 1888. It was ultimately named after the Armenian astrophysicist, Benjamin Markarian, who discovered their common motion in the early 1960s." [Wikipedia]
5 hours total integration. This image includes galaxies from the PGC HyperLeda catalog of 983K galaxies.
5 hours total integration. This image includes galaxies from the PGC HyperLeda catalog of 983K galaxies.
Exposure | 30*600sec |
ISO | 800 |
Camera | Nikon Z7 [8856 x 5504] |
Optics | Skywatcher Esprit 120mm |
Capture | KStars on an Odroid-N2 |
Location | Lower Sackville, Nova Scotia. |
Date | 2021-05-01 |
Processing | Processed and annotated in PixInsight. |