Galaxy season 2022

Image Description and Details : In recent months, and more precisely from March 19th to June 5th, I have concentrated on shooting the portion of the sky between the constellations of Leo, Virgo and Coma Berenices. This is a very rich field of galaxies from the Leo Triplet to the Virgo Cluster, some very small, some larger that show interesting details and others that appear as a simple wad of light with the brightest core in the center. In total, I acquired about 77 hours of signal to compose 17 images in which I could count (thanks to the annotations of Pixinsight), in addition to the 21 subjects belonging to the Messier catalogue that were my main subjects, 44 galaxies belonging to the NGC catalogue (New General Catalogue), 29 belonging to the IC catalogue (Index Catalogue) and 760 remote galaxies belonging to the PGC catalogue (Principal Galaxies Catalogue). I close my first galaxy season with this composition of the main galaxies captured, namely the 21 cataloged by Messier and others in the NGC catalogue, including the Hamburger Galaxy, the Markarian's Eye and the Siamese Twins. Konus 200/1000 @960mm, f4.8 Qhy168c Eq6r Pro Optolong L_Pro and SvBony CLS filters Kstars/ekos, APP, Pixinsight, PS

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