Markarian’s Chain, Mar’25

Two perfect nights in March 2025 — one under the pristine skies of Hoher List Observatory, the other at home under my suburban sky. Luminance captured on-site, RGB from home. Couldn’t be happier with the result!

Messier 89

M 89 is a lenticular galaxy in the constellation Virgo, lying about 63.2 million light-years away, and reaches its annual culmination at astronomical midnight and is best observed late March.