Markarian Chain of galaxies is a stretch of galaxies that forms part of the Virgo Cluster. When viewed from Earth, the galaxies lie along a smoothly curved line. Charles Messier first discovered two of the galaxies, M84 and M86, in 1781. Other were discovered by William Herschel. It was ultimately named after the Soviet astrophysicist of Armenian descent, Benjamin Markarian, who discovered their common motion in the early 1960s. In the dark skies they appear as fuzzy cloud to the naked eye, but they can be seen in more detail even with a small telescope. Near the center there appear the pair of interacting galaxies NGC 4438 and NGC 4435, about 50 million light-years away.
This image was taken over several nights using RedCat 51 astrograph telescope (250mm focal length at f/4.9), dedicated cooled astronomy cameras ZWO ASI294MM Pro and ZWO ASI294MC Pro using Optolong L-Pro filter and Hydrogen-alpha emission filter from dark skies site of Los Angeles Astronomical Society.