Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Leo (Leo)  ·  Contains:  IC 2694  ·  IC 2745  ·  IC 2782  ·  IC 2787  ·  Leo Triplet  ·  M 65  ·  M 66  ·  NGC 3623  ·  NGC 3627  ·  NGC 3628
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Leo Triplet wide

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Leo Triplet wide

Equipment

Imaging Telescopes Or Lenses
Takahashi Epsilon-130D
Imaging Cameras
Canon EOS 77D
Mounts
AZ-EQ6
Software
Adobe Photoshop · Pleiades Astrophoto PixInsight
Guiding Telescopes Or Lenses
Skywatcher 9x50 finder
Guiding Cameras
MGEN

Acquisition details

Dates:
Feb. 5, 2019
Frames:
272×180(13h 36′)
Integration:
13h 36′
Avg. Moon age:
0.56 days
Avg. Moon phase:
0.35%

RA center: 11h20m42s.70

DEC center: +13°2002.2

Pixel scale: 2.710 arcsec/pixel

Orientation: -0.595 degrees

Field radius: 1.053 degrees

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Resolution: 2329x1552

File size: 3.8 MB

Locations: my little astrofarm, Weppersdorf, Austria

Data source: Traveller

Description

a widefield of Leos famous galaxy triplet, featuring the enormous tidal tail of NGC3628. Eos77d set to Iso800, 272x3min subframes.

The crop is oriented north up, the full field north to the left.

Lots of small background galaxies are marked with their PGC numbers in the annotated picture.

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Sky plot

Sky plot

Histogram

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