AP#48 : M84/86
Name: "St. Catherine's wheel"
Constellation:Como Bernices
Instrument:
Image 1: 8-inch F5 reflector with sky watcher coma corrector and a modified Nikon D3300.
Image 2: 6-inch F5 reflector with sky watcher coma corrector and a modified Nikon D3300.
Exposure time:
Image 1: A stack of 16 five-minute exposures at ISO 800.
Image 2: A stack of 20 five-minute exposures at ISO 800.
Star Chart from Michael Vlasov's Deep sky hunter star atlas available on line https://www.deepskywatch.com/deep-sky-hunter-atlas.html
Magnitude:
M84 - 9.1
M86 - 8.9
Angular size:
M84 - 6.5' X 5.6'
M86 - 8.9' X 5.8'
M84 and 86 are less than the 10' limit but they are part of Markarian's chain of galaxies, which is a celestial showpiece when it comes to imaging. This first image shows the pair and the immediately surrounding galaxies.
This image was taken with a 6-inch reflector and shows all the galaxies in Markarian's chain.
