Though the weather has been fantastic, it has been tough lately to get out imaging. My latest adventure was to image a pair of galaxies (Messier 95 and 96). In the photo above, M95 is on the left and M96 on the right. Messier 95 is known as a "barred spiral" galaxy with an inner ring of active star formation. It's neighbor, M96 is slightly larger, is a classic spiral galaxy and encompasses 80 thousand million solar masses. These two galaxies are part of a three galaxy group known as Leo I Group in the constellation Leo.
Photo Details
March 28, 2016
Orion 8" Astrograph on VX Mount
SBIG STF-8300C Camera
Baader MPC Mark III Multi-Purpose Coma Corrector
Skyglow filter
27 subframes at 3 minutes/frame
Total Exposure Time = 1 hour 21 minutes
Image Acquisition in CCDOps
Image Stacking in Deep Sky Tracker
Image Processing in PhotoShop
Image Acquisition in CCDOps
Image Stacking in Deep Sky Tracker
Image Processing in PhotoShop
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