Leo Triplet widefield & still close-up'ish

[Grinde]

Hi all!

Here's some data I shot some week ago but haven't had the time to process until now, due to work in my lovely neighbor-country Norway. I started shooting when the sky was partly cloudy & let the image-run go on the whole night while I went to bed, & got up early to sort out the subs that wasn't ruined by clouds. I ended up with L: 7*5min & RGB: 3*5min each channel

The equipment used was the FSQ106 & QSI 583wsg, I intended to start using the 190MN but couldn't find the 2" nosepiece for my camera so I went for a wide-field version, but I'm still very impressed with the amount of detail with just 4" aperture & 530mm focal-length

Click to view in 50% pixelsize

Click here for some 100% crops of the three galaxies

Thanks for watching!

Jonas

[Black Knight]

Terrrific detail there Jonas. Lovely star colour too!

[Cubemaster]

Fantastic

[Astroblagger]

Lovely image and well processed.

[Daniel-K]

thats a great image

[peter shah]

beautiful work, colour is spot on

[Looking Up]

Very nice! Good detail and colour, nice stars as well! To marks!

[ollypenrice]

Lovely clean, crisp image with every dtetail in place. If you could get some long subs you might get more of the tidal tail of the NGC galaxy. It's very faint but visible in your image already. Longer subs would nail it, I reckon.

Olly

[WayBig]

A lovely image, cant wait to point the dob at this group again.

[zedds]

That is a fantastic image. Great work.

I hope you don`t mind, it`s now my desktop background.

[Cloudwatcher]

Excellent work.......... love the widefield.

[Anweniel]

Theres some fabulous detail in there, wonderful job! Thanks for sharing

[Zul]

Best triplet i've ever see!

[Darth Takahashi]

Very nice capture with lots of detail around the galaxies...beautiful wide field image.

[Grinde]

Thank you all for your kind comments, I'm starting to like the way the galaxies float among the stars with lots of space around 'em, instead of long focal length close-ups... Especially when details like these still can be achieved.

Forgot to mention that the subs where all unguided, thx to the new mount!

Thx for the tips Olly, that's really interesting stuff since I didn't know a thing about that, first time shooting it. I'll definetely look into getting some more Lum