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The Leo Triplet, In The Constellation Leo
NGC 3628 (Left), M65 (Top), and M66 (Bottom Right)
NGC 3628 (Left), M65 (Top), and M66 (Bottom Right)
Image:
6x4 minutes for a total exposure time of 24 minutes at ISO 800
Stacked and dark subtracted with Deepsky Stacker, processed in Adobe Photoshop CS3 Extended
(Tracking was good, but focus was a little off)
Equipment:
Hutech modified Canon T1i DSLR
200 mm f5 modified Konus Newtonian with Baader coma corrector
Losmandy G-11 with Gemini Go To with Losmandy heavy duty tripod
Orion Starshooter Autoguider on Orion 80 mm Short tube
From seds.org:
http://seds.org/messier/more/m066gr.html
This small group of galaxies consists of the Messier objects M65 (NGC 3623) and M66 (NGC 3627) as well as the edge-on spiral NGC 3628. These three galaxies, the heart of the M66 group, form a beautiful and photogenic group which is frequently referred to as the Leo Triplett; Halton Arp has included this group as number 317 in his Catalogue of Peculiar Galaxies (M66 is also Arp 16). Lying at a distance of some 35 million light years, it is probably physically related to the M96 group.
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-- Samuel "Mark Twain" Clemens
"I think that in the discussion of natural problems we ought to begin not with the scriptures, but with experiments, demonstrations, and observations".
- Galileo Galilei (1564-1642)
"In short, Meyer has shown that his first disastrous book was not a fluke: he is capable of going into any field in which he has no training or research experience and botching it just as badly as he did molecular biology. As I've written before, if you are a complete amateur and don't understand a subject, don't demonstrate the Dunning-Kruger effect by writing a book about it and proving your ignorance to everyone else! "
- Dr. Donald Prothero
