Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Leo (Leo)  ·  Contains:  NGC 3185  ·  NGC 3187  ·  NGC 3189  ·  NGC 3190  ·  NGC 3193
Galaxies in Leo, Johannes Josefsen
Galaxies in Leo
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Galaxies in Leo

Galaxies in Leo, Johannes Josefsen
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Galaxies in Leo

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Hickson 44 is a group of interacting galaxies in the constellation Leo, also designated as Arp 316 in The Atlas of Peculiar Galaxies.

NGC 3190 is the nearly edge on spiral galaxy in the center of the image, with the very prominent dustlane. Lower to the left is NGC 3187 a barred spiral galaxy. Above we find the hazy eliptical galaxy NGC 3193.

NGC 3185 to the lower left is not a part of the Hickson 44 group, but is another lovely barred spiral galaxy.

The distance to Hickson 44 is approximately 80 million lightyears.

Total integration time is around 9 hours in a bit of a mixed bag of subs.

100 minutes of luminance.

153 minutes of Red.

150 minutes of Green.

141 minutes of Blue.

I made a synthetic luminance by stacking all lum, red, green and blue subs for a total luminance stack of roughly 9 hours, but it stands to reason that the contribution of the RGB only equates to a little under 3 hours of luminance.

I am experimenting with just shooting RGB and combining it as a synthetic luminance, it is probably faster to get real luminance in the end. But shooting this much RGB compared to what I normally do, made it a little easier to process I think.

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