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I always had a little smile and a chuckle while processing this picture. It's the little things in life that make it fun. It just amazed me how much this group of galaxies looked so much like a face.
The Galactic Face in the Virgo Cluster is approximately 65 million light years away and make up part of the Virgo Cluster or the Markarian's Chain of galaxies, in the constellation, where else, Virgo. This particular photo contains numerous galaxies to create "the face," most notably Messier 86, M86, and Messier 84, M84, comprising the "eyes," NGC 4487, the "nose," NGC 4388, the "mouth," and NGC 4402, the top left "eyebrow."
Image Data: Messier 86 Markarion's chain
Mount: Atlas Pro / ASIAIR control
Telescope: Explore Scientific ED127 Triplet Refractor
Reducer / Flattener Not Used
Main Camera: Canon T6 DSLR
Filters: Optilong IRUV - 2 inch
Guide Camera ASI120MM Mini
Guide Scope Skywatcher Ev0guide 50 ED
20 usable Light Exposures (180 seconds)
Matching Darks
Processing: ASIStudio; Nebulocity; Adobe CS2; Adobe PS Elements v 15
Notes: Images captured at Texas Star Party 4/30/2022
Stacked & processed in ASIStudio & thru DDP in Nebulocity. Performed Maximum stretching with curves and color balanced. Tidied up and saved as jpg in PSE 15.
Ernest Adams