Observation by Mike Greenhill-Hooper: Virgo cluster including 12 Messier galax...

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Mike Greenhill-Hooper

Observer

Mike Greenhill-Hooper

Observed

2026 May 11 - 20:30

Uploaded

2026 May 17 - 11:13

Objects

M58
M59
M60
M84
M86
M87
M88
M89
M90
M91
The Coma Pinwheel Galaxy (M99)
M100

Equipment

135mm Samyang lens (f/4) on ASI294MMPro all on SkyWatcher NEQ6
LRGB filters

Exposure

20x30s for each filter; camera gain 121, offset 10, T=1C

Location

Miradoux, S.W. France

Target name

Virgo Cluster

Title

Virgo cluster including 12 Messier galaxies

About this image

Images captured and mount controlled with APT. Images calibrated (darks, flats, dark flats) and processed with Affinity Photo. Siril used for deconvolution. Final animated GIF created with PIPP, but this caused some loss of quality in the image (binning and quality reduction options in PIPP were needed to produce a file smaller than 2MB). At least 12 Messier galaxies are visible, maybe more? In addition lots of NGC catalogued galaxies and of course all centred around M87 and Markarian's Chain. Nova.astronometry.net was used to perform the image plate solving and annotation.

Files associated with this observation

Virgo smaller_pipp.gif (1.9 MB)

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