M105 and friends in the "Sandilands" provincial forest (Ian Dixon)

Celestial hemisphere: Northern · Constellation: Leo (Leo) · Contains: M 105 · NGC 3379 · NGC 3384 · NGC 3389

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M105 and friends in the "Sandilands" provincial forest

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M105 and friends in the "Sandilands" provincial forest

Hello all,

I wanted to take some images of the larger Leo galaxies for the past three years, but am only recently equipped to do so. This is a very short exposure of 11 x 180 seconds. Essentially I just wanted to tune up my rig, check if everything was working and also get Messier under my belt.

Paraphrasing wiki:

M105 or NGC 3379, is an elliptical galaxy 36.6 million light years away in the equatorial constellation of Leo. It features a SMBH at its core. It was discovered by Pierre Méchain in 1781. This galaxy is one of a few not object-verified by Messier so omitted in the editions of his Catalogue of his era. It was appended when Helen S. Hogg found a letter by Méchain locating and describing this object which matched those aspects under its first-published name, NGC 3379.

Nearby are galaxies NGC 3384 and 3389. The latter is almost the main reason for going after M105.... a very cool little galaxy in and of itself.

Thank you for looking!

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RA (center)	10h47m55s.362
RA (top/left)	10h46m32s.646
RA (top/right)	10h49m35s.773
RA (bottom/right)	10h49m18s.180
RA (bottom/left)	10h46m15s.251

Dec (center)	+12°33′23″.65
Dec (top/left)	+12°53′59″.30
Dec (top/right)	+12°48′39″.10
Dec (bottom/right)	+12°12′48″.23
Dec (bottom/left)	+12°18′08″.59

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