M95, M96, M105, NGC 3384 and NGC 3389 in LRGB - the halfway point has been reached (Uwe Deutermann)

M95, M96, M105, NGC 3384 and NGC 3389 in LRGB - the halfway point has been reached

Due to the longer weekend, I am able to add a second image within a week, and if I want to get going with the Messier catalog, I better get used to this 😊. 2 new ones with this image, M95 and M105, which is of course nice to have. This brought me to exactly 55 Messier objects that I visited so far, and that is 50%, a little milestone! Which also makes me wonder, wow ... just half of it, there will be quite more to do!

I am actually more and more happy about choosing to go for the whole catalog, I do not think that I would have targeted M95 or even M105, which would have been a shame! M95 shows wonderful details, and even if M105 is one of those "boring" ellipticals, it has with NGC 3389 a great "companion", and a triple galaxy "cluster" is anyway special 😊.

To be able to see those details, I decided as final version to show a zoomed in version of the 3 main targets, and as overlay version B the wide field image, hope you like it, I certainly do 😊.

To boldly go for the next 50% ...

P.S.: Version E shows clouds that showed up while my wife and I were on our daily exercise walk, thought it looked cool, even if all of us are not super fans of clouds 😊.

And one more note: I do not think that I have seen a "bigger" PGC galaxy than PGC 32251 (also named UGC 5897), located at the left edge, middle up. They are usually just little smudges, this one is certainly an exception.

Final
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E

B

Title: Base Image

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C

Title: Annotated image

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D

Title: My current Messier Targets - 50%!!

Description: Welcome M95 and M105 to the summary list!

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E

Title: And even clouds can be sometimes beautiful

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RA (center)	10h46m15s.593
RA (top/left)	10h49m30s.575
RA (top/right)	10h48m58s.340
RA (bottom/right)	10h42m58s.879
RA (bottom/left)	10h43m34s.500

Dec (center)	+12°04′45″.36
Dec (top/left)	+11°00′56″.39
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