M84-86 Area

"Virgo Cluster"

Constellation- Virgo

This image contains approximately 77 galaxies identifiable in TheSky to magnitude 18.

The area in the image is 49.9x74.8 arc minutes at 2/93 arc seconds per pixel.

Image information-

Date taken-May 8 and 10, 2005

Telescope/Focal length/Camera/Temperature- Takahashi FS-78 @ f/8.1, ST-8XE NABG @ -20C, autoguided on a NexStar11 with CCDSoft Ver. 5.0

Integrations- LRGB, L = 15x300 seconds binned 1x1, RGB = 12x300 seconds each binned 1x1

Processing- Flats and darks, aligned and combined in CCDSoft, Color combined in Astroart 2.0