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Also known as Markarian's Chain, this group of galaxies belong to the Virgo galaxy group located approximately 55 million light years from the Earth.

Image acquired using SBIG St-10XME camera with Astrodon filter set through modified 80mm Orion Express telescope with William Optics 0.8x Field Flattener III.

120 minutes of Luminance through Luminance filter, 1x1 binning.

30 minutes each of Red, Green and Blue, 2x2 binning.

Five minute sub-frames.

05/15/09