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Leo Triplet Imaged by Peter Campbell-Burns

Peter Campbell-Burns — By pcburns on August 13, 2009 at 7:28 am
The Leo Triplet (also known as the M66 Group) is a small group of galaxies about 35 million light-years away in the constellation Leo. It consists of the spiral galaxies M65, the M66, and the NGC 3628.
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Leo Triplet - click to enlarge
Leo Triplet – click to enlarge

The image was taken with an Orion ED80 and Atik 16HR.  19 exposures of 240 sec were stacked using Astroart 4.0

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