A crisp and clean Leo Trio

[SteveL]

Well, what another great night... seeing was great, transparency kind of "magic murk" again. With the hour change, I was out, set up and polar aligned well before astro dark started. I discovered that I can now laterally balance the MakNewt on the ADM side by side plate if I have my QHY8 + Nikon lens bundle on top of the ED80 on the other side of the plate... result! (Might post some wide field images from that later)

Anyway, here is my attempt at the Leo Trio. Never imaged this before, so am very happy with the way this has come out. I may have to reprocess it over the next day or two, as I havent had any sleep at all, and we all know what that can do to your post-processing

OTA: Skywatcher 190 MakNewt

Guiding: ED80 + SX Lodestar + PHD

Imaging: M25C + MaximDL, 21×600s, IDAS (100 bias, 100 flats)

Stacked: DeepSkyStacker

Post Process: PSCS2

First Processed version

(Click on the image for the larger version).

Edit: Reprocessed and much better version

[Beyond_Vision]

Now that is crisp, fantastic detail and colour Steve, a great image

Regards

Kevin

[James]

That is gorgeous! Fantastic image

James

[Psychobilly]

I like that a lot...

Peter...

[Doc]

Stunning piece of Art.

[Aza]

Very nice indeed, great piece of work

[blinky]

WOW! It's the detail in the galaxies that is absolutly amazing! Well done that man

[brendant]

Stunning image Steve, lovelt colour and detail, fantastic processing.

Brendan

[MikeD]

Fantastic job Steve.

You had acheved in one night what is going to take me weeks to do with my setup.

Mike.

[Sam]

Wow:icon_eek: Very very nice Steve!

[bazza]

Superb image Steve.

Lovely detail in the galaxies.

Very, very nice.

Barry.

[CELESCOPE]

You are right there Steve a very clean and crisp image ,Fov is just right , what does show out very well as its been said is the very fine detail you have picked up in the Galaxies, so i guess its worth staying up late and feeling like *** for something like that ,

Oh heavens its my turn for POW and loads of quality stuff.

Rog:eek:

[markcol]

Great result Steve.

Mark

[RobH]

Very fine image Steve, great FOV and excellent detail.

Processing is very subtle and smoothly done

Cheers

Rob

[JCJC]

Amazing image Steve. Great detail.

Jordan

[steppenwolf]

Excellent Trio, Steve with some lovely colour too - that 190 and M25C make a great combination - but this clear sky thing has me at a bit of a loss .....

[ollypenrice]

Great stuff. The detail in 65 and 66 in particular are outstanding and show how good the Mak-Newt is. You must be thinking about some other good galaxy pairs with that setup. The Whale and the Hockeystick, for instance...

Olly.

[SteveL]

mm... whale and hockeystick... added to my list (its hidden behind the house for a few hours after dark at the moment)

[Darth Takahashi]

That's an amazing image, well done, looks like the weather holding, if its does I'm going to have ago at the Leo triplet myself tonight.

Neil.

[Dave]

Very, very nice.

[Imahumanbeing]

Stunning!

[ZOG]

Top, top image Steve, well done indeed.

[centroid]

'Clean and crisp' it is indeed Steve

Its not often that we get 'seeing' like that, and you certainly extracted the best from it.

A very nice piece of work all round.

Dave

[George]

Thats a stunning image Steve.

[rich_t]

That's a fantastic image, great framing.

Cheers,

Rich.