These two are the most interesting in Markarian's Chain of galaxies near the heart of the Virgo-Coma Galaxy Cluster. These two galaxies are about 52 or so million light years away. The background galaxies are much farther, as deep as 3 billion light years. This image is 38x480" with the SXVF-H9, an Astronomik CLS filter, and the 203mm f/4.95 Synta-ONTC Newtonian. This is about as much galactic light as I can wrangle from the light pollution level of my backyard.
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