Leo Triplet (Joe Matthews)

Celestial hemisphere: Northern · Constellation: Leo (Leo) · Contains: HD98172 · HD98388 · HD98644 · IC 2694 · IC 2704 · IC 2708 · IC 2745 · IC 2762 · IC 2782 · Leo Triplet · M 65 · M 66 · NGC 3623 · NGC 3627 · NGC 3628

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Last night I spent a lot of time trying to pair my ASI533MCP with my Zenith Star 61 and just couldn't get the back focus correct. I wasn't really frustrated but for the first time I thought of selling the Zenith Star 61, and save the money for say the William Optics FLT120 or the FLT 132. So I setup my William Optics FLT91 rig and tried to find a target with the remaining time I had and decided on the Leo Triplet. This is the first time I tried this target with the biggest Telescope I have. I had a Celestron NextStar 8SE, but decided to sell it and use the money to purchase a refractor and an eq mount and so, my ZenithStar 61 and AVX mount came to be.

I know that to get good photos of Galaxies I will need to use an SCT or Newtonian of some sort, but I am not really into collimating, I had enough of that with the 8SE, and my budget is very limited since I am retired. So, If anyone has advice on what they prefer to use as an all around Telescope preferably a refractor please feel free to comment.

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RA (center)	11h20m13s.98
RA (top/left)	11h17m06s.23
RA (top/right)	11h17m11s.70
RA (bottom/right)	11h23m20s.41
RA (bottom/left)	11h23m17s.23

Dec (center)	+12°59′38″.0
Dec (top/left)	+13°44′06″.10
Dec (top/right)	+12°14′01″.5
Dec (bottom/right)	+12°15′00″.9
Dec (bottom/left)	+13°45′05″.1

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