Galaxy Neighbors, Dozens of Galaxies in Virgo Cluster
The Virgo Cluster of galaxies has over 1,300 member galaxies in it. This small part of the cluster easily shows over 30 galaxies. A slightly magnified view may reveal 50 or more. The sequence of images was taken with an Explore Scientific ES80 APO refractor telescope and a Canon T7i DSLR camera. It’s a very compact setup. Exposures: 39 x 90s each at ISO 3200. No guiding was used. The mount was a Celestron Advanced VX. A simple programmable remote camera trigger fired off the exposures while I struggled to stay awake on the overnight hobby.
The image stack was stacked in Deep Sky Stacker software and the resulting TIFF, without effects applied, was then processed in Pixinsight software. Finishing touches were put on with Adobe Photoshop Creative Cloud software which was used to render the image to the JPG format.
Galaxy Neighbors, Dozens of Galaxies in Virgo Cluster
The Virgo Cluster of galaxies has over 1,300 member galaxies in it. This small part of the cluster easily shows over 30 galaxies. A slightly magnified view may reveal 50 or more. The sequence of images was taken with an Explore Scientific ES80 APO refractor telescope and a Canon T7i DSLR camera. It’s a very compact setup. Exposures: 39 x 90s each at ISO 3200. No guiding was used. The mount was a Celestron Advanced VX. A simple programmable remote camera trigger fired off the exposures while I struggled to stay awake on the overnight hobby.
The image stack was stacked in Deep Sky Stacker software and the resulting TIFF, without effects applied, was then processed in Pixinsight software. Finishing touches were put on with Adobe Photoshop Creative Cloud software which was used to render the image to the JPG format.