Leo Triplet : A quick grab and process

[Catanonia]

Over the last few nights the weather has been glorious and I hardly got any sleep. I just had to get some sleep, so swung the scope around to Leo that was just rising with the moon rising below it.

I was unsure what I would get, put frames and set the scope to take the images whilst I got some sleep.

I ended up with a lot of rubbish, but in the subs were 3 hours of RGB only in 3 minute subs. About 20 x 3min subs per RGB channel.

A quick process later and here is the result. Not too bad for a grab and go whilst sleeping.

Details

Scope TS SuperNewt 200mm with F2.8 Corrector FL 568mm

QHY9 mono + QHY 2inch filters

TS OAG, QHY5, PHD and NEQ6 mount for guiding.

CS5 and PI for processing. Image cropped by 50% for framing.

I hope you like

[melsky]

You're getting so good at this imaging lark Cat you can do it with your eye's closed.

Very nice image

Mel

[Catanonia]

Full sized image here

http://astrob.in/full/3801/

[Zul]

Stunning triplet!! Great job!

[JohnC64]

looks like polaris and dustlanes image in the astrobin link. Damned impressive though!!!

Edit:

found the Triplet at http://www.astrobin.com/3801/ And its stunning

[Catanonia]

looks like polaris and dustlanes image in the astrobin link. Damned impressive though!!!

Edit:

found the Triplet at AstroBin - Leo Triplet (Catanonia) And its stunning

Doh, well spotted and edited now. Not finished the Polaris one yet

[Atacamallama]

Nice one, I looked rather longingly at Leo the other night after a sesh on M33 then the horsehead..., but by then my power had run out. Get it soon though.

[Spikey]

That's really good mate. I know how my subs came out with the moon about on the triplet, they were terrible. Tricky thing to process as well. Plenty of detail in there.

[Black Knight]

Very nice Cat. I can't even see Leo from my back garden at the moment, but looking forward to having a go at this target when I get the chance.

[MartinB]

Looking good Cat, are you going to get some luminence data?

[Catanonia]

Looking good Cat, are you going to get some luminence data?

Depends on the moon, it really wahes out my luminance @ 2.8

[R Fisher]

Great detail in the Galaxies, scope performing well !

Understand the lack of sleep, cant pass up the rare oppertunity

[Catanonia]

Great detail in the Galaxies, scope performing well !

Understand the lack of sleep, cant pass up the rare oppertunity

Still a bit of work to do with the scope, learnt a lot in the last few weeks. Was nice to get some shut eye last night. Too much of a good thing eh