M3 and Virgo galaxies

[Roberto]

Hello All

I trust you are well and making the most out of the lemons we've been handed!

I completed the attached M3 last week and am now working on the Eastern part of the Virgo cluster (did the Markarian Chain a few years ago) in the first half of the night and a region in Vulpecula in the second half.  M3 is only 7hrs worth of colour exposure so I decided to combine the RGB files to create a synthetic luminance to deconvolve and stretch. The annotated Virgo Cluster image is 3hrs worth of exposure; hope to do more over the next few nights.  Nothing to show for Vulpecula yet!

Last night's seeing was some of the best I've had in England for double star observation; get out there tonight if clear!

Best wishes

Roberto

M3 - wide field https://www.astrobin.com/q697mv/D/?real=&nc=user


M3 - Annotated


M88 and friends - work in progress


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Messier_88

[Carole]

Some nice targets there Roberto.

Carole

[Roberto]

Thank you Carole! Hope you are well.

[NoelC]

Really nice Roberto.
Excellent tracking and resolution.
Noel

[Roberto]

Thank you Noel.

[The Thing]

That is one sharp well resolved M3. Fantastic Roberto. The galaxies are not shoddy either!

[Roberto]

Thank you Duncan - the wonders of deconvolution!

Roberto

[RobertM]

Just goes to prove that not all lemons are created equal

Lovely images as ever but... I can only ever see half of it full res on my monitor any one time

Robert

[ApophisAstros]

Wonderful images Roberto , how do you annotate them, great when you zoom in.
Roger

[Roberto]

Robert, many thanks.

Roger, there's a script in PixInsight that does this (semi)automatically. The image must be astrometrically solved and then catalogues are loaded to place markers on objects by coordinates. It's very impressive.

Thanks

Roberto

[ApophisAstros]

Cheers for that heads up,
Roger