The galaxies Messier 66 (left) and Messier 65 (right) in the constellation
Leo on March 28/29, 2014. The two spirals are about 35 million light years from earth and were discovered by Charles Messier in 1780. They can be
seen in a small telescope (source: Wikipedia).
20 3-minutes exposures at ISO 800 were added for this shot in DeepSkyStacker (resulting in a 1 hour and 7
minutes exposure) and the final image processing was done in Photoshop.
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Equipment: Canon EOS 450D Baader modified camera, TeleVue Paracorr Type II coma corrector,
16" f/4.5 "Ninja" dobsonian telescope riding on a dual-axis Tom Osypowski equatorial platform,
Lacerta MGEN autoguider, Lacerta off axis system (field of view comparison:
image of the moon with the same equipment).
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