Messier Objects
I highly recommend a book on Charles Messier and the creation of this catalogue - Atlas of Messier Objects, 2008 by Ronald Stoyan.
Note: This gallery should be automatically sorted by Messier #.
M66 - NGC3627 - Galaxy in Leo - 4/4/2019 (Processed cropped LRGB stack)
Imaged at Perth Observatory using their remotely accessible equipment.
DeepSkyStacker 4.4.1 Stacked 7 of 10 Images @ 90 Sec for Luminance and 150 Sec for each of 4xG 6xB and 120Sec for 4xR. Master DARK, BIAS and FLAT applied by SkyNet platform, Post-processed with Adobe Photoshop CC 2019 to combine LRGB and using trial AstroFlat Pro for flattening RGB gradients
Telescope - Celestron 14" f/11 with Optec ~0.5x Focal Reducer to f/5.62 F=2000mm, SBIG Filter Wheel with Open, B, V, R, IR, SPEC100, Ha and OIII filters, SBIG STT-3200M CCD camera 2184x1472 6.8µ pixels with field 26' x 17' , Optec TCF-S Temperature Compensating Focuser with FocusMAX autofocus software, CCD at -25C. Maxim DL for Image acquisition. Mount - Paramount ME. Boltwood Cloud Sensor II. TheSky planetarium software.
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