Saturday, March 20, 2010

Leo Triplet (M65, M66, NGC3628)

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This photo consists of 45 3 min. (135 min. total) exposures taken on Mar. 15 and 18 from a vacant lot in Tucson, AZ.  It is a work in progress.  I am hoping that more exposure time will reveal more detail in the galaxies.  NGC3628 (upper left) is edge-on and is bisected by a dust lane. M65 is a tight spiral galaxy (upper right).  M66 is a spiral galaxy (lower right).  The galaxies are about 35 million ly from Earth.  The image size is about 65x65 arc minutes.





Imaging Setup:

Stellarvue 115T20 Apo Triplet
Stellarvue Field Flattener
HEQ-5 Mount
Baader UHC-S Filter
Orion Star Shoot Pro V2.0 One-Shot Colour Camera
KW Telescope Guide Scope (QHY-5 Camera)
PHD Guiding
Nebulosity 2 – Image Capture
Deep Sky Stacker 3.3.2
Adobe Photoshop CS2 – Image Processing

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