Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Leo (Leo)  ·  Contains:  Leo Triplet  ·  M 65  ·  NGC 3623
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M65 - Leo Triplet, Awni Hafedh
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M65 - Leo Triplet, Awni Hafedh
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This is part two of the Leo Triplet galaxy group showing a second galaxy which is M65 that lies at a distance of about 35 million light years from Earth and has a diameter of about 90,000 light years.

Here is a fun stuff when I was processing this image, as you can see the left side is a big more reddish than the right side of the galaxy and for a second I thought I was able to capture the blue and red shift because of the disk rotation but as it turned later I just didn't do a great job with background gradient removal and ended up with that artifact within the galaxy 🙂

This was a stack of 120x60sec subs total of 2 hours, I mainly used PixInSight and Luminar 4 to process it and enhance the details within the galaxy, I hope you like it.

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Celestron 9.25" with 0.7x reducer

ZWO ASI533MC Camera

Astronomik Lum filter

iOptron CEM60 mount

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M65 - Leo Triplet, Awni Hafedh