Leo Triplet 8h36 OSC

[vineyard]

Hello,

Leo Triplet w ASI294MCPro & TV102iis reduced/flattened by 0.79x.  APP & then PI (with photometric colour calibration).

I'm not sure it's worth getting more data at this FOV (would anything change radically in the image?) but someday it would be nice to go deeper on each of those galaxies with a larger aperture.

Cheers,

Vin

[Saganite]

A nice image.

I looked at the Leo triplet on the 22nd Feb with my 12" Dob and, as is often the case, M65 and M66 were prominent whereas NGC 3628  needed averted vision .

Edited February 24, 2022 by Saganite

[tomato]

Nice triplet. Not sure how good your sky is, but deeper images can reveal the tidal tail from NGC 3628, which is quite extensive.

[vineyard]

Thanks @tomato - that's a v good point.  I'm in Bortle 8, so the visual obs that @Saganite you were describing is sadly probably impossible without NV.  But I will now keep gathering data every so often just to see how long it takes for the tail to emerge (hopefully filters will make up for Bortle 8?).  Cheers!