Leo Triplet - LRGB

The Leo Triplet consists of three galaxies at a distance of around 35 million light years, M65 (top right), M66 (bottom right) and NGC3628 (left). I have always aimed at imaging the triplet since I started imaging but never got around to it.

 

M65 (NGC 3623) and M66 (NGC 3627) are classed as intermiediate spiral galaxies and NGC3628 is also known as the Hamburger Galaxy or Sarah’s Galaxy and is classed as an Unbarred Spiral Galaxy.

 

The image consists of:-

29x300S of Luminance

14x300S Red, Green and Blue

25 Darks and flats subtracted from all frames

 

Equipment Details:

Imaging Telescope: Sky-Watcher Quattro 8-CF F4 Imaging Newtonian

Imaging Camera: Atik Cameras 383L+ Mono CCD

Coma Corrector: Sky-Watcher Aplanatic Coma Corrector

Guide Camera: Qhyccd QHY5L-II

Guide Scoope: Celestron Telescopes C80ED Refractor

Mount: Sky-Watcher EQ8 Pro

Filter Wheel: Starlight Xpress Ltd 7x36mm USB EFW

Filters: Baader Planetarium LRGB + 7NM HA

 

Image Aquisition: Main Sequence Software SGPro

Image Pre-Processing and STacking: Maxim-DL

Post Processing: PixInsight

 

 

Done