Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Leo (Leo)  ·  Contains:  HD98388  ·  Leo Triplet  ·  M 65  ·  M 66  ·  NGC 3623  ·  NGC 3627  ·  NGC 3628
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Leo Triplet Revisisted, Steve Spring
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Leo Triplet Revisisted

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Leo Triplet Revisisted

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I dug out some old data from earlier this year. It's been a year of refining aquisition, fighting internal refractions, optimising optics and employing an ASP-C chip. This data was taken over three nights when amongst other issues, I had pinched the corrector plate on my SCT as well as using the Celestron Dew Heater Ring which caused some horrible spikes o hte brighter stars.

So, star shapes are not he best but this was fun and quick to process. This is a target I have imaged before and its great to see the improvents made despite the issues, which i hope I have now resolved in later images of other targets.

Such a great area of the sky. Magnificent galaxies all within one image, the scale of which delivers details in each that we can reach with modest equipment, beautiful.

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Leo Triplet Revisisted, Steve Spring