Leo Trio (Brian Boyle)

Celestial hemisphere: Northern · Constellation: Leo (Leo) · Contains: Leo Triplet · M 65 · M 66 · NGC 3623 · NGC 3627 · NGC 3628

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Man, this hobby is addictive. After four clear nights in a row, I was ready for a break. But the upcoming week-long bad weather, didn't come in as quickly as forecast, so I started to image again.

I have been avoiding the Leo Trio up until now, since a) everyone does it far better than me b) From a latitude of -45 the odds are stacked against you. Nevertheless it is bright, and with the clouds gathering it would at least provide me more data to improve my post-processing skills.

I managed to get just over 2 hours of data - 1 hour either side of the meridian before I lost the guide star totally to cloud.

I did have a little bit of fun (I really do need to get out more) with the post-processing. Improving my star-reduction skills (eventually a monkey will type Shakespeare) and balancing my wavelets (sharpening v noise reduction).

Given the conditions - particular at a zd of 60 - I am reasonable happy with the result. Now onto the reduction of Thor's Helmet. Oh joy!

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Status	Advanced success
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Astrometry.net job	4394670
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RA (center)	11h19m44s.93
RA (top/left)	11h21m09s.17
RA (top/right)	11h20m47s.81
RA (bottom/right)	11h18m20s.35
RA (bottom/left)	11h18m42s.33

Dec (center)	+13°16′45″.4
Dec (top/left)	+12°53′46″.4
Dec (top/right)	+13°43′30″.8
Dec (bottom/right)	+13°39′43″.10
Dec (bottom/left)	+12°50′01″.3

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