Virgo Cluster LRGB April 2015

There's a few galaxies in this. Apart from all the chunky ones, there are loads of little fuzzy ones as well. Cool. Not quite Hubble Ultra Deep Field, but not bad from my back garden :)

 

This is part of the Virgo Supercluster of galaxies, which comprises as many as 2000 galaxies. Our Local Group, which includes us (the Milky Way) and Andromeda, is in the suburbs of the Virgo Supercluster.

 

This is just over 7 hours of ten minute subs for luminance and 2.5 hours of 5 minute subs for the RGB, what there is of it!

 

ED80 with 0.85 focal reducer

HEQ5 Pro, belt driven

Cooled mono Canon 450D, CLS CCD filter for Luminance

Modded Canon 500D for RGB

APT, PHD, CDC, EQMOD

Stacked in DSS, processed in CS5

Done