23.5.20

m98

A one off tonight. The unofficial summer project m7 or bust needs me to be sitting there controlling affairs. I decided against starting said in favour of something else. So anyway, this pair fitted into the frame. Not much magnification, but at least they're distinguishable as galaxies.

distance, light years
 m98  47 000 000
 m99  56 000 000


galaxies left m99 coma pinwheel with m98 in coma berenices
700d on nt150s    36x5min @ ISO800




and here we are straight out of Siril with a gimp masked stretch. Topical for current times...

And a complete rethink. darktable this time.