The NOAA partly cloudy forecast for Harvard, MA on Thursday 4/8 was not optimistic but Clear Sky Charts showed clear skies with average transparency for the night. My local skies were clear so I decided to gamble on the 45 mile trip to Harvard for a night of Coma Cluster galaxy imaging. For the most part the gamble paid off. All images below were averaged from 16 one minute subframes. While experimenting with image processing I found that applying noise reduction immediately after expanding the histogram to brighten the image makes the histogram more manageable. I'll consider elaborating in a future post.
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| Messier 49 - Giant Elliptical Galaxy |
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| Messier 60(top) & Messier 59(bottom) |
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| Messier 61 - Barred Spiral Galaxy |
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| Clockwise from top Messier 86, NGC4402, Messier 84, NGC4387, NGC4388 |
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| Messier 88 |
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| Messier 89 (center) |
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| Messier 90 |
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| Messier 98 |
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| Messier 99 |
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| Messier 100 |
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| NGC3521 |
