Markarian’s chain – A cluster of galaxies

I was awed by just how many galaxies I managed to capture in this.

Equipment:

  • Sony Rx10iv
  • Sky watcher star adventurer
  • Star adventurer tripod
  • bahintov mask
  • intervalometer
  • t-shirt for flat frames

Acquisition:

  • ISO 800, F/4.0, 300mm equivalent zoom
  • 362 1 minute exposures, 244 stacked (4 hours 20 minutes total exposure time)
  • 50 flats
  • 100 bias

Processing:

  • Stacked with siril
  • Processed with pixinsight (stretched, luminance extraction and reapplication, curves transformation)

Image with objects:

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