M84 M86 NGC 4374 NGC 4406
Elliptical Galaxy Elliptical/Spiral Galaxy Virgo
Magnitude 9.1 - 8.9 Diameter 6 minutes - 9 minutes


04/15/2004



Doughton Park Prime focus f/4
800mm 16x Motor drive and manual guiding
Canon Digital Rebel 400 ISO 11 minutes 39 seconds
Stack of 3 pictures (224s + 237s + 238s) stacked, aligned and processed with Photoshop. They are in the middle of the Virgo cluster, as 15 galaxies can be seen on the picture, 6 of them are part of the Markarian's chain.





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