Philipp Salzgeber Wolfurt / Austria
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The Leo Triplet
| The constellation Leo contains some fine galaxies, three
of them (M65, M66 and NGC 3268) form a nice trio. The three
galaxies are physically interacting, producing the weird shapes
of their spiral arms.
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large version
| Telescope: |
150mm
f/5 Newtonian |
| Camera |
Nikon D200 |
| Exposure: |
6x180s, ISO 800 |
| Date: |
16th, March 2008 |
| Processing: |
Preprocessing (Dark & Bias correction),
Alignment & stacking in IRIS, histogram adjustment
curves, color correction in Photoshop. |
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