Virgo-cluster

It is amazing browsing through the Virgo cluster in the sky. It feels like no matter where you point your telescope, you can find at least a couple of galaxies. Makes you feels small and insignificant. What I glorious feeling. :-)
I shot this image halfway centered around M87. The big elliptical galaxy almost in the centre of this image a bit below the middle. Up to the right is the Markarian Chain. A chain of galaxies like pearls on a string. And dottet around in the image are several Messier-galaxies, NGC-galaxies and probably some PGC-galaxies as well. I haven't checked properly, but I guess there are a couple of dozen galaxies in this single image.

Tech specs : Pentax K5, 150x1min unguided exposures, 24 flats, Williams Optic 71mm Zenithstar 5-element apo, Astronomik CLS-filter. Celestron AVX mount. Stacked in DSS, processed in PS and Irfanview. As always : Click on the image for a full version.