Leo Triplet (Alex Ranous)

Celestial hemisphere: Northern · Constellation: Leo (Leo) · Contains: HD98388 · HD98644 · IC 2708 · IC 2745 · Leo Triplet · M 65 · M 66 · NGC 3623 · NGC 3627 · NGC 3628

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Galaxy season is almost here. Galaxies aren't normally my thing. My focal length limits me to what targets I can get, and they're more of a pain to process being broadband and me being in the light polluted Bay Area. I ended up throwing a ton of subs on this to start bringing out the tidal streamer from NGC 3628, and it's still only barely visable. One day I'll have a setup in dark skies.

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Description: The weather here in the Bay Area the last couple weeks have been uncharacteristically crappy. We're getting the summer marine layer moving in come nightfall when the fall is normally clear. With little new data coming in, I'm revisiting some of my old images and reprocessing them as I've learned some new tricks. This image's background is somewhat mottled, due to how I reduced the noise and I believe I shrank the stars using EZ Star Reduction. Using NoiseXTerminator and StarXTerminator and few new processing techniques, I believe the result is improved.

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RA (center)	11h19m55s.373
RA (top/left)	11h21m04s.837
RA (top/right)	11h22m42s.405
RA (bottom/right)	11h18m45s.261
RA (bottom/left)	11h17m09s.102

Dec (center)	+13°16′38″.38
Dec (top/left)	+12°25′38″.53
Dec (top/right)	+13°51′52″.97
Dec (bottom/right)	+14°07′38″.65
Dec (bottom/left)	+12°41′18″.66

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