Leo Triplet (Walter Torres)

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

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Leo Triplet

Hello everyone. I had been waiting for a couple of months to image the Leo Triplet. As always here in Chicagoland everything didn't go as planned, in between clouds, snow, windstorms, and equipment malfunctions over several nights I was only able to capture a fraction of the data that I would've liked. However, I'm not complaining I'm happy with being able to get anything at all.

This image is the fist one that I've taken with my AT130 + Stellarvue SFFR.72 reducer. I think they turned out to be a good match. This was also my first attempt at using the ASI294MMPro's unbinned mode to capture my Luminance channel. The idea was that I would be able to capture finer details with the tiny 2.3um pixels.

Drizzle integration and processed mostly on PixInsight. I was not able to take flats during one of those nights so processed those subs with a synthetic flat. Final minor touches in Photoshop. Main image cropped to 95% to remove dither and stacking artifacts then resampled to 45% to meet AstroBin's upload size limit.

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Dates: 2/27, 2/28, 3/02
Lum 60s X118 Bin1
Lum 120s X21 Bin1
Red 60s x54 Bin2
Green 60s X51 Bin2
Blue 60s X50 Bin2
Ha 300s X35 Bin2 (Discarded)
Darks, Flats, & Flatdarks x 32ea

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