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Samir Kharusi | profile | all galleries >> Galleries >> Markarian's Chain tree view | thumbnails | slideshow

Markarian's Chain

Spent the night of 10th March 2005 out in the boonies near Quriyat, Oman. Fairly low altitude, just 300m above sea level, but reasonably close to Muscat. Battled for 2 hours to get my autoguider to work. The thing just refused to take more than a couple of frames sequentially. Could not even get it to calibrate. Finally gave up and checked if I could photograph anything at all without autoguiding the Celestron CGE mount. I found that trailing started to show up with 3 minutes at a focal length of 840mm. Desperately searched for something that will frame satisfactorily at 600mm focal length and show something, anything, with 2 minutes exposures. Thus I settled to spend the night shooting Markarian's Chain of galaxies. At least the night was not a total waste. Read on, text beneath the pics...
Markarians Chain
Markarians Chain
Markarian Annotated
Markarian Annotated
Pixel Peeping at 100pct
Pixel Peeping at 100pct