Leo Triplet From Snake Valley

[barx1963 (Malcolm)]

This is the slightly meagre result of the Snake Valley Astro Camp back a few days ago. LRGB image of the Leo Triplet of M65, M66 and NGC3628.
Colour was tricky as a lot of magenta kept coming out. Details are:

Scope: Stellarvue SVR102T-IS at f7 with custom field flattener
Camera: SBIG STT8300M with Baader LRGB filters
Mount: Orion Atlas AZEQ-G
Guiding: Orion SSAG pro and Orion ST80 with PHD2
Image Acquisition: SGP
Subs: L 11 x 5mins, R 14 x 5 mins, G 9 x 5mins, B 9 x 5mins.
Calibrated and stacked in Pixinsight, final combination and levels, curves, cropping and highpass filters applied in PS CC 2017

Malcolm

[traveller (Bo)]

Looks good Malcolm.
The Leo trio is a bit low for me to image where I am, but one day....
Bo

[gregbradley]

That's a very decent triplet and using a 4 inch scope even more impressive.

Greg.

[leon]

Wow, nice job indeed.

Leon

[barx1963 (Malcolm)]

Originally Posted by traveller

Looks good Malcolm.
The Leo trio is a bit low for me to image where I am, but one day....
Bo

Thanks Bo. Works really well at SV with the low north horizon.

Originally Posted by gregbradley

That's a very decent triplet and using a 4 inch scope even more impressive.

Greg.

Thanks Greg. This is a moderately widefield scope, but on groups like this it works well.

Originally Posted by leon

Wow, nice job indeed.

Leon

Thanks Leon, much appreciated. Still not really happy with it, still a bit noisy and not as sharp as I would like but not sure what to do to get it better.

Malcolm