Markarian's chain (Xavier Ducrohet)

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Markarian's chain

One of the first few images I started working on after a very wet North California Winter and early Spring. This was captured right around the moon's third quarter for only 12 hours so there is plenty of noise due to my light polluted backyard. I did what I could during processing but it's still obviously visible. I decided I didn't really want to spend more time on this, so this is it and overall I'm relatively happy with it, as I managed to capture quite a few galaxies in that field.

Seeing was pretty average during the acquisition leading to FHWM of around 3.7 (as recorded by the excellent Session Metadata Plugin for NINA which I just discovered in time for this target)

Processed in PixInsight after plenty of trials and errors. Been watching Adam Block's many (many!) videos, and it's really been helping. Much, much more to learn though.

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Status	Advanced success
Started	...
Astrometry.net job	9794620
PixInsight job	4YKVF30WGSNN0YJ87UHUF0BQ28Y5IFT7
PixInsight queue size	n/a
PixInsight stage	TASK_LOG

RA (center)	12h27m58s.31
RA (top/left)	12h29m32s.23
RA (top/right)	12h22m25s.63
RA (bottom/right)	12h26m25s.80
RA (bottom/left)	12h33m31s.12

Dec (center)	+13°07′49″.2
Dec (top/left)	+14°26′00″.0
Dec (top/right)	+12°58′38″.8
Dec (bottom/right)	+11°49′29″.0
Dec (bottom/left)	+13°16′22″.8

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