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Markarian's Chain

            Benjamin Markarian who died on 29 September 1985 was an Armenian astrophysicist who gave his name to Markarian's Chain of galaxies in the Virgo Cluster after he discovered that this string of galaxies moves with a common motion. The Virgo Cluster is the nearest cluster of galaxies and contains over 2000 galaxies. It has a noticeable gravitational pull on the galaxies of our own Local Group of Galaxies which surround our Milky Way. The centre of the Virgo Cluster is located about 70 million light-years away toward the constellation of Virgo.

This image shows part of Markarian's Chain and is marked by the Messier galaxies M84 and M86 to the right and the interacting pair of galaxies NGC 4438 and NGC 4435, known as The Eyes or ARP 120, in the centre of the image. There are many small, faint galaxies in this image.

The image comprises 20 luminance and eight each of RGB subs, all of five minutes exposure.

Telescope: APM 107mm triplet
Camera: QSI 583 plus Astrodon filters
Mount: EQ6 Pro

Processing: Deep Sky Stacker; Pixinsight, Photoshop

Location: Cambridge UK

Taken on: May 6, 2017

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Markarian's Chain

Messier 84

APM 107

QSI

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Sets appears in: • Galaxies

Groups appears in: • in explore • The Camera Club [El Club De La Cámara]

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