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Old 21-04-2013, 07:55 AM
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Nice looking Leo trio Paul, some good detail in the galaxies for a little scope love the nicely saturated colours and the strong blue too

That's not galactic cirrus though...a star doesn't illuminate galactic cirrus, it hovers above the Milky Way and is illuminated by the Milky Way as a whole and generally shows structure rather than being a vague glow. I think the GC in that area is ultra faint too (or non existent even?) can't find an image that shows it in that area. What you have there looks more like a gradient, possibly some cloud (doubt that) or just your processing, maybe less than optimal flats..?

You can make out the tidal stream coming off NGC 3268 though so that's pretty cool

Nice work

Mike
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