M65 - M66 (Pete Mumbower)

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

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M65/M66, two of the three members of the Leo Trio here. For some reason I thought I was going to be able to fit the third member in. Guess I should of checked with the framing wizard in SGP! Regardless this makes for a great duo. M66 has such bright arms, details, and clearly active star forming regions. Where as M65 appears devoid of much star birth with a strong lean toward mostly older stars giving that strong golden cast.

This project was a pain to calibrate at first because of flat issues. Some large dust donuts where embossed in the Lum stack. I still do not full understand what is going on, but I was using 3 week old flats and the "fix" was to retake the flats. That did a pretty decent job, though there are some issues in the corners of the uncropped stack. Moving forward I will shoot flats every session, I have no reason not to with a permanent setup and automation. Still I am pretty happy with this. Clocking in close to 13hrs of LRGB data. It feels like I am settling in on integration times for my new sarker location and having an observatory. So 12-16hrs will be for most objects and if it warrants, I will go to the 30-40hr range.

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Status	Advanced success
Started	...
Astrometry.net job	4318808
PixInsight job	T12I8LTJCKHMH41UAN2HYEP2JP3XXPQU
PixInsight queue size	n/a
PixInsight stage	n/a

RA (center)	11h19m37s.340
RA (top/left)	11h20m49s.740
RA (top/right)	11h18m28s.178
RA (bottom/right)	11h18m25s.115
RA (bottom/left)	11h20m45s.765

Dec (center)	+13°02′10″.20
Dec (top/left)	+13°13′37″.30
Dec (top/right)	+13°14′43″.99
Dec (bottom/right)	+12°50′41″.54
Dec (bottom/left)	+12°49′34″.85

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