The sky was perfectly clear last month at Leyburn at my Stardust Observatory to capture these pretty galaxies in the constellation of Leo.
This group of large spiral galaxies are about 35 million light-years away and are well seen even in quite a small telescope. You can find them by running a line of sight between the stars Regulus to Denebola, and closer to Denebola the galaxies are located between the stars Cherton, Theta Leonis and Iota Leonis.
If you would like to find out more about these galaxies in Leo please go to this excellent website
for Messier objects at:
https://www.messier-objects.com/leo-triplet/
This group of large spiral galaxies are about 35 million light-years away and are well seen even in quite a small telescope. You can find them by running a line of sight between the stars Regulus to Denebola, and closer to Denebola the galaxies are located between the stars Cherton, Theta Leonis and Iota Leonis.
If you would like to find out more about these galaxies in Leo please go to this excellent website
for Messier objects at:
https://www.messier-objects.com/leo-triplet/
~ How I take these images with my Meade 80mm refractor tracking on top of larger Meade 10inch telescope ~
The images were taken with a Meade 80mm refractor telescope and a Canon 70D camera, which was tracking on top of a Meade 10inch LX 200 telescope, 15x4 minute subs and 5x4 minute darks were captured
and stacked in DSS and processed in PS CS4 :-)
and stacked in DSS and processed in PS CS4 :-)
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