I found an extremely busy area of the sky inside Coma Berenices that is littered with galaxies and other Messier catalogue objects. I aimed my Canon T5i at a relatively bright star 6 Com and let it click away for 10 minutes (I actually set a timer for 10 minutes and let it go).
The result was a HUGE image mosaic of stars smearing across my computer screen. I cropped the file down to the least smeared patch and ran it through Astrometry.net, which helped me identify 6 Messier objects all in the same image. The large image is below, sliced into smaller pieces as identified by the white boxes.
![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCcI_wigEpZB00IEH-WD22h6WJmdM0RfvkkqCxm8_ci9wj3oTsDOGw8R8JYmxGQgb2Ek2seihBbJfiiu_KAp_cWkoAgM_m0UKlWqYRn9G8J3-DK5R6xrh1fd55alQl4F5KviIg-bKzb8nC/s1600/6+com+messier+split.jpg) |
6 Com region of the sky, 4 min 22 sec total exposure time, stack of 197 subs, 71 dark, 53 bias
300mm, ISO 6400, f/5.6, 1.3 sec each |
![M86 and M84 M86 and M84](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjpypDc8hPt5DY3PfFedssomGTeoB3azL8ECiBcq50-yF1sjzjLir_tntmhrS4ZmR6r9i1cuB64-lKyktcnurtrwBMRniA2Bz4HSzBWDGHHss4vc1DsJYcwP4iDp-zdiOy7iQ0rHspZCbuQ/s1600/m84+m86.jpg) |
M86 and M84 |
![M88 and M100 M88 and M100](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0AfL09gZ4x7st8hoKzZ0WfzkBib-MijHG6QerhbzBaToQPX48CXH_nIy2pF2Jl6iBukyM6JFVeX77UOpYWMzqNAW2YBKsQs2yy2iQbG0XUjGG2GIDgJvx0NXaCgXnhBuipdQiLJLVySWg/s1600/m88+m100.jpg) |
M88 and M100 |
![M99 the Pin-Wheel Nebula, and M98 M99 the Pin-Wheel Nebula, and M98](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-GmvNyodGBEnnPNorb-ztGsGtCmGJl5XdtZ1_IisIv6Pngxb6ut2lTt9rn755_a2Ak_6vncvebFiB_HPrz74fQocTrBnwFz0aYL-_PW7ylulI60tOTMJ-xbiLTqn7ppGd6-zllSnk1Pcv/s1600/m98+m99.jpg) |
M99 the Pin-Wheel Nebula, and M98 (just barely). |
Ok, so I'm maxing out on gray blobs here, but I'm at 300mm so I can't get any closer with my DSLR right now. I guess these will have to count until I get my EQ mount up and running. Still counts!
This haul brings my Messier total to 62 out of 110!
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