Thursday, 4 April 2013

M65 & M66 in Leo

This is my first attempt at deep space Galaxies. Part of the Leo triplet these two galaxies are 35 million light years away. Taken through orange light polluted sky, I was quite pleased with this image as I could hardly see them at all through the scope. I used only 16 x 20sec images at ISO 3200 plus darks, flats and bias frames stacked in DSS. Due to blustery conditions, only 16 out of 80 images had round stars. I hope to do much better with good seeing and calmer weather in future.

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