This wider view of a trio of galaxies, commonly referred to as the Leo Triplett, shows M66 in the upper left, NGC 3628 (The Hamburger Galaxy) in the upper right, with M65 in the lower left. Equipment: ZWO ASI1600MM-C Camera @ -15C and Gain:74 Offset:12 Software Bisque MyT Mount Stellarvue SVQ100 Astrograph Refractor, 580mm @ f/5.8 Unguided Software: Pixinsight Commercial Version 1.8 Lightroom CC Light Frames: Luminance: 12 x 120 secs (24 mins) Red: 6 x 270 secs (27 mins) Green: 5 x 270 secs (22.5 mins) Blue: 4 x 270 secs (18 mins) Dark Frames: 20 x 270 secs (90 mins) Details about The Leo Triplett From Wikipedia: The Leo Triplet (also known as the M66 Group) is a small group of galaxies about 35 million light-years away[5] in the constellation Leo. This galaxy group consists of the spiral galaxies M65, M66, and NGC 3628.
A first try at a high magnification image of a galaxy. Lots of trouble processing this one, with issues with color balancing, and eventually giving up on separately including a Hydrogen-alpha layer. But this face on galaxy is such an interesting target, with it's many star forming regions, grand spiral design, and obvious signs of a tidal disruption from a close encounter with a passing galaxy in its past, that I am still enjoying this result. Equipment: ZWO ASI1600MM-C Camera @ -15C and gain:139 Offset:21 Software Bisque MyT Mount Stellarvue SVQ100 Astrograph Refractor, 580mm @ f/5.8 Software: Pixinsight Commercial Version 1.8 Lightroom CC Photoshop CC Light Frames: Luminance: 55 x 90 secs (82.5 mins) Red: 6 x 150 secs (15 mins) Green: 6 x 150 secs (15 mins) Blue: 6 x 150 secs (15 mins) Dark Frames: 20 x 90 secs (30 mins) 20 x 150 secs (50 mins) Details about The Pinwheel Galaxy From Wikipedia: The Pinwheel Galaxy (also known as Messier 101, M101 or NGC 5457) is a face-on spiral galaxy distanced 21 million light-years (six megaparsecs)[3] away from earth in the constellation Ursa Major. First discovered by Pierre Méchain on March 27, 1781, it was communicated to Charles Messier who verified its position for inclusion in the Messier Catalogue as one of its final entries. M101 is a large galaxy comparable in size to the Milky Way. With a diameter of 170,000 light-years it is roughly equal the size of the Milky Way. It has a disk mass on the order of 100 billion solar masses, along with a small central bulge of about 3 billion solar masses.[11]
With a snowstorm the night before, it seemed like I would not have a chance to image this event. Luckily, the storm started to clear out just as the last part of the transit was happening. This was shot on a fixed tripod, with the gimbal head, using the Sigma 150-600 at 600mm through a white light solar filter.
