Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Leo (Leo)  ·  Contains:  HD98388  ·  IC 2694  ·  IC 2745  ·  IC 2763  ·  Leo Triplet  ·  M 65  ·  M 66  ·  NGC 3623  ·  NGC 3627  ·  NGC 3628
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M65 / M66 / NGC 3628 — Leo Triplet, Ryan Génier
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M65 / M66 / NGC 3628 — Leo Triplet

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M65 / M66 / NGC 3628 — Leo Triplet, Ryan Génier
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M65 / M66 / NGC 3628 — Leo Triplet

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Taking pictures of galaxies is definitely not the strength of the RASA, but you take what you can get.

I had to spend some time with DBE to clean up the background of this image. I'm still running into issues gradients around the perimeter of my images. It's an ongoing struggle. However, I managed to get this one looking decent. Pretty happy with the details I was able to pull from the galaxies.

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Crop
DBE
PCC
EZ Decon
EZ Soft Stretch

Extract LUM

LUM
EZ HDR
Unsharp Mask (only on the galaxies)
MMT (noise reduction on the background)

Colour
Curves adjustment (bring out colour in the galaxies and the stars, darken the background a bit)

LRGB Combination
Crop / Annotate

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M65 / M66 / NGC 3628 — Leo Triplet, Ryan Génier