It's amazing what a 5.5-inch telescope can capture from 33 million light-years away considering one light-year is about 5.88 trillion miles (9.5 trillion km). This was quite a difficult image to process as I found it challenging to reveal the detail within the galaxy without overdoing it.
Messier 95, also known as M95 or NGC 3351, is a barred spiral galaxy located about 33 million light-years away in the zodiac constellation Leo. It was discovered by Pierre Méchain in 1781, and cataloged by fellow French astronomer Charles Messier four days later. It has around 40 billion stars.
Captured by David Wills at PixelSkies, Spain
www.pixelskiesastro.comLum 48x600Secs
Red 51x300Secs
Green 59x300Secs
Blue 54x300Secs
13 hours 40 mins in total.
Equipment used:
Telescope: Tec 140 F7
Camera: Xpress Trius SX-694 Pro Mono Cooled to -10C
Image Scale: 0.95
Guiding: OAG
Filters: Astronomik LRGB Ha
Mount: iOptron CEM60 "Standard" GOTO Centre Balanced Equatorial Mount
Image Acquisition: Voyager
Observatory control: Lunatico Dragonfly
Stacking and Calibrating: Pixinsight, Photoshop
Processing: Pixinsight 1.8
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