Leo Triplet   M65 (top right)   M66 (lower right)   NGC3628

2005 April 8-9th  from my back garden in Leigh on Sea, Essex, UK
Televue TVNP101 100mm APO refractor 540mm fl.
Sbig ST4 autoguider
Starlight Xpress HX916 CCD camera
IDAS LPR filter with True Tech RGB colour filters
LRGB image L60mins 1x1, R25mins 1x1, G25mins 1x1, B25mins 1x1 all 5min sub exposures.

The observatory is heavily light polluted. The sky was mainly clear apart from occasional drifting cloud,  the night was cool and a North Easterly wind was keeping humidity low.  The images were secured between 22.30 BST and 3.30 BST

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