Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Leo (Leo)  ·  Contains:  IC 643  ·  M 105  ·  M 95  ·  M 96  ·  NGC 3351  ·  NGC 3368  ·  NGC 3379  ·  NGC 3384  ·  NGC 3389
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M95 M96 M105, Simon Wilson
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M95 M96 M105

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M95 M96 M105, Simon Wilson
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M95 M96 M105

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Tried to squeeze a bunch of galaxies into this recent shot in the constellation of Leo. Top left is M95 and it's twin M96 to the right . In the lower right at the 9 o'clock position is M105 and going clockwise from there NGC 3389 and NGC 3384.  Lots of other smaller faint fuzzies are captured too.  Not really enough colour data but some nice detail here from the Baby Q and 460ex mono.

As part of the processing I used the Russell Croman developed NoiseXterminator plugin for Pixinsight for the first time.  This worked really well and has the benefit (over Topaz) of not destroying the stars.

As an owner of 3 refractor telescopes I sometimes get a bit of star diffraction spike envy, so used one of Noel's Actions to add some in for a bit of extra bling!

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M95 M96 M105, Simon Wilson