Hi Gang !
This pair of Galaxies in Leo(M66/65) is a must do for Astrophotographers!
With there dusty lanes amongst the intricate spiral structure, to there subtle colours, and lying at a distance of 31 million LY and at about mag 10,there always a challenge.
It's interesting to note that the Leo trio was over looked by Messier who was busy observing a comet in 1773 which passed directly through the field on November the 2nd(must of been one hell of a comet!) consequently they were descovered by Mechain in March 1780.
I shot this through the ZS 110 with the SXV-H9C and guided on an AP600E mount out at Magellen Observatory 200km south of Sydney a couple of months back.
Exposures were 12 x 10 minutes and AA3 was used to capture,align&combine and CS2 for all post processing.
I hope you enjoy
