Leo Triplet

[dizzy2003 (Michael)]

Leo Triplet (M65 M66 and NGC3628 <the hamburger galaxy>)
30 to 35 million light years away.

Pretty happy with how this came out 7 hours and 10mins worth of exposures over about 4 days of the new moon. Mostly at home (Bortle 5/6) but some from a dark sky location (watts bridge with seqas) (Bortle 2)


Amazing to think of the countless billions of stars , planets and civilizations in this pic.

80mm apo (explorer scientific triplet)
HEQ5
asi533-mc
asi120mm + svbony 50mm guidescope

sharpcap for polar alignment
phd2 for guiding
APT for captuures
DSS+StarTools for stacking and processing.
full calibration frames

[PKay (Peter)]

That's a great capture Michael

Well done

[multiweb (Marc)]

Nicely done

[Sunfish (Ray)]

Very impressive triplet. Lots of great colour and detail.

[dizzy2003 (Michael)]

Thanks, still quite new to this expensive addiction.