Date: 3/19/2010
Target: M65, M66, NGC3628 - The Leo Trio
Telescope: Orion 8" f/4.9 w/Multi-Purpose Coma Corrector
Camera: Canon 40D (modified)
Filter: None
Exposures: 35x240s (2.3h) @ ISO1600
Framing: North is Left, 2x Drizzle and 33% Crop
Start Temp: 42F
End Temp: 35F
Location: Mocksville, NC
Seeing: 4/5
Transparency: 5/5
Guiding (RMS/Osc): 0.21/41
Dark Noise (StdDev): 291
Start Time: 10:00PM
End Time: 2:00AM
Captured with Nebulosity, stacked using DeepSkyStacker, processed in Photoshop.
Full frame Leo Trio
here.
From
Wikipedia:
NGC 3628 is an
unbarred spiral galaxy about 35 million
light-years away in the
constellation Leo. It was discovered by
William Herschel in 1784. It has an approximately 300,000 light-years long
tidal tail. NGC 3628 along with
M65 and
M66 form the famous
Leo Triplet, a small
group of galaxies. Its most conspicuous feature is the broad and obscuring band of dust located along the outer edge of its spiral arms, effectively transecting the galaxy to our view.