Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Leo (Leo)  ·  Contains:  Leo Triplet  ·  M 65  ·  M 66  ·  NGC 3623  ·  NGC 3627  ·  NGC 3628
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Leo Triplet, David Koslicki
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Leo Triplet

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Leo Triplet

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I lucked out and had basically a completely clear night, so was able to capture the Leo Triplet in broadband. Typically I like to gather ~10 hours of data per deep sky image, but I'm happy with these results as is. I was playing around with drizzle settings, and still don't much understand the impact of certain choices: in this particular image a droplet size of 1.0 seemed to give best results (noise vs sharpness), but with the exact same setup (just a week or two later), a much smaller droplet size gave better results. Maybe seeing has something to do with it?

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Leo Triplet, David Koslicki