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Community photo entitled  by Andy Dungan on 04/07/2024 at Near Cotopaxi, CO USA

On 04/07/2024 04:00 am by Andy Dungan| Near Cotopaxi, CO USA

I have been thinking about this image for well over a year since reading about Markarian's Chain. I finally got around to it. I also encourage you to look at an image recently posted by Ron Haggett (https://earthsky.org/earthsky-community-photos/entry/66123/). This pic shows what can be done with more sophisticated equipment. My picture is rotated about 110 degrees clockwise from his pic. The night sky sure is an interesting place!

Canon R full spec, Sigma 150-600C@600mm, 120 sec, f6.3 iso12800 20 lights (out of 50 shot), 7 flats
Star Adventurer 2i

Affinity Photo 2 to stack and process, Starnet2 to separate stars
I toned down the stars so that the galaxies would be more obvious