Saturday 16 April 2022

Lenticular Galaxy M85

 

Deep Space between Coma, Virgo and Leo. Messier 85 top right. Wide-field image taken with the astro-modded Canon 200d camera with clip in Altair Astro Dual Band filter.  Altair 66mm Doublet refractor with 0.8 focal reducer and field flattener. A stack of 2 minute lights at  ISO800. Credit: Kurt Thrust.

Nice evening in March 2022 and I decided to try out the new camera on an area of the sky seldom imaged from the Jodrell Plank Observatory. The Galaxies M85, NGC4539 and NGC4450 are clearly visible.- Kurt Thrust current Director of the Jodrell Plank Observatory 

Plate Solving image by Astrometry.net



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