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Virgo Galaxy Cluster by ~quicksimon:iconquicksimon:

Categories Photography > Animals, Plants & Nature > Sky

©2008 ~quicksimon
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Submitted: May 5
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Full view please. I hope this looks OK on your screen. Some are these galaxies are dim, so hope your screen brightness is up! ;)

What looks like fuzzy stars are actually distant Galaxies, maybe millions of light-years in size. My image doesn't really do this part of the sky justice!

If I'm right, the galaxy to the right-middle is m88 and bottom-left is m84. Anyone know?

Hope you like

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Camera: Astro-Modified Nikon D50
Scope: Scopos 80m f6 Refractor
28 x 100 second exposures, all ISO 1600
Deepsky Stacker and Photoshop used.

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~astrnmr:iconastrnmr: May 5, 2008, 7:34:19 PM
Need a wider field of view for this shot.
~Kokone:iconKokone: May 6, 2008, 12:10:35 AM
I'm not sure about M88 and M84, there should be a bright (6.0) star in between them. I looked it up in The Sky Six, but a wider field is indeed needed.

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Wish I could speak in just one sweep
What you are and what you mean to me
Instead I mumble randomly
You stand by and enlighten me
~Chrissyo:iconChrissyo: May 6, 2008, 5:49:50 AM
Neat shot! Sure are a lot of fuzzies in that view!

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~quicksimon:iconquicksimon: May 6, 2008, 1:15:24 PM
Of course the wider the field the better, but that would have to be one WIDE field telescope ;)

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I have noticed even people who claim everything is predestined, and that we can do nothing to change it, look before they cross the road - Stephen Hawking
~quicksimon:iconquicksimon: May 6, 2008, 1:16:50 PM
Well, there is a focal reducer that can be had for this scope, which would make it very wide field. Could be one for the future

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I have noticed even people who claim everything is predestined, and that we can do nothing to change it, look before they cross the road - Stephen Hawking
~quicksimon:iconquicksimon: May 6, 2008, 1:17:16 PM
Thanks m8! Yeah, it's fuzzy city!

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I have noticed even people who claim everything is predestined, and that we can do nothing to change it, look before they cross the road - Stephen Hawking
~quicksimon:iconquicksimon: May 6, 2008, 1:17:31 PM
Thanks a lot! :)

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I have noticed even people who claim everything is predestined, and that we can do nothing to change it, look before they cross the road - Stephen Hawking
~Kokone:iconKokone: May 6, 2008, 1:19:33 PM
Meanwhile I'll try to figure out which galaxies are visible

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Wish I could speak in just one sweep
What you are and what you mean to me
Instead I mumble randomly
You stand by and enlighten me
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