M66 - Leo Triplet (Awni Hafedh)

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

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M66 - Leo Triplet

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M66 - Leo Triplet

Link: https://www.facebook.com/awni.hafedh/posts/10158282040770888

March 14, 2021 - M66

Yes, it is galaxy season as our night sky is pointing toward the void of space through our Milkyway galaxy, there is where we see millions of distant galaxies, star clusters and all sorts of other worlds out there.

This is more like a short series of 4 episodes that show the beauty of a galaxy chain called the Leo Triplets which consists mainly of 3 galaxies and one of them is M66.

This was a stack of 220x60sec subs total of 3.6 hours, I mainly used PixInSight and Luminar 4 to process it and enhance the details within the galaxy, I was really impressed that I managed to pull out such details with only 60sec exposure from a Bortle 7 sky at F/7, now just imagine what I can get from Bortle 2 sky, this is just the beginning as I will definitely capture it again. I hope you like it

Equipment used

Celestron 9.25" with 0.7x reducer

ZWO ASI533MC Camera

Astronomik Lum filter

iOptron CEM60 mount

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Status	Advanced success
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Astrometry.net job	4359309
PixInsight job	ZCD6DEGDR7HBJ37YPOGS6QKBEL6YOUJI
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RA (center)	11h20m14s.827
RA (top/left)	11h19m34s.606
RA (top/right)	11h20m53s.698
RA (bottom/right)	11h20m55s.930
RA (bottom/left)	11h19m35s.915

Dec (center)	+12°59′31″.20
Dec (top/left)	+12°49′59″.99
Dec (top/right)	+12°49′40″.24
Dec (bottom/right)	+13°09′01″.90
Dec (bottom/left)	+13°09′21″.72

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