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Markarian's Chain, captured on April 2nd, but only finished processing now. The main issue is to contend with the gradient (despite shooting at a Bortle 3 location since there's still quite a bit of light pollution to the east and south). I used the method described in https://astrobackyard.com/remove-gradients-photoshop/ with some modification, and it worked out well.
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And a wider view showing M87, M88, M89, M90, M91, M58, and others. What an amazing piece of sky!
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Beautiful images!
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superb photo , thx
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Juno16 wrote: ↑Sat Apr 10, 2021 10:00 pm Beautiful images!
messier 111 wrote: ↑Sat Apr 10, 2021 10:56 pm superb photo , thx
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You certainly did well with the gradient. Lovely shot of a very rich area of the sky.
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Very nice capture with excellent framing.
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Awesome! Well done!
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Congratulations Jon on having your image selected as todays TSS APOD!

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Oh yes, congratulations on the APOD, you did some great work here!
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Hi Jon. A beautiful Markarian's Chain image. And I like the wide field view where so many neighbors show up well too. Thanks for putting these up on here for us to enjoy Jon and congratulations on winning the well deserved TSS APOD Award today.
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Very nice, This is actually on my list of targets this week, Should start capturing it tomorrow.
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Thank you everyone! And thank you @Gordon for the APOD selection!
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Very nicely done.
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Good capture!

Congrats on the award !!!

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BABOafrica wrote: ↑Tue Apr 13, 2021 5:48 am Good capture!

Congrats on the award !!!

BABO
SPIE7 wrote: ↑Mon Apr 12, 2021 3:04 pm Very nicely done.
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