Markarians Chain - Deep sky challenge

Markarians chain of galaxies in the Virgo Cluster on the border of the constellations of Coma Berenices and Virgo.

The brightest galaxy in this image is M86 at magnitude 8.9 and the faintest that I have measured is 18.8 although there are fainter but I've no useful way of measuring their brightness to any accuracy.

Image taken when within 98% of full moon giving a sky background adu of approx 45000-46000 and a nightmare gradient.

Sum of 20 x 5 minutes binned 1x1

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Filename:	Markarian-0XXLum.jpg
Album name:	RobertM / Galaxies and Clusters
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Link-words:	Galaxy
Image date, time and location:	May 19th 2008 23:00 - 01:00 My back garden in Orpington
Telescope aperture and focal ratio:	90 mm @ f4.5
Camera and filters used:	SXV-H9 binned 1x1 with Baader Neodymium
Processing applied:	Calibrated in Maxim with DDP stretch and Magic processing courtesy of a trial version of Gradient Xterminator
Filesize:	185 KiB
Date added:	May 20, 2008
Dimensions:	1392 x 1040 pixels
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