Messier 65 (also known as NGC 3623) is an intermediate spiral galaxy about 35 million light-years away in the constellation Leo, within its highly equatorial southern half.
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Messier 65 (also known as NGC 3623) is an intermediate spiral galaxy about 35 million light-years away in the constellation Leo, within its highly equatorial southern half. It was discovered by Charles Messier in 1780. With M66 and NGC 3628, it forms the Leo Triplet, a small close group of galaxies.
Exposure
12@1200 sec + 8@300 sec (3.7 hours)
ISO
800, 3200, 5000
Camera
Nikon Z7 [8856 x 5504]
Optics
Skywatcher Esprit 120mm Refractor, 840 mm focal length
Filter
Clear
Guiding
Phd2 using a ZWO 224MC on an Orion 60x240mm Guide scope
Controller
Images taken using Kstars on an Odroid-N2 (Raspberry Pi clone)
Location
Lower Sackville, Nova Scotia.
Date
2021-06-21
PixInsight Processing
WeightedBatchPreprocessing Script
Dynamic Crop
Automatic Background Extractor
MultiscaleLinearTransform
HistogramTransform
CurvesTransformation
Further tweaking in ImagesPlus to remove the dust bunnies; Lightroom; Topaz DeNoise AI, Sharpen AI and GigaPixel AI.
