K3's Astronomy - Messier Catalog
"When I consider your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars which You have set in place, what is Man that You are mindful of him?" -- Psalm 8:3,4
M66 (Spiral Galaxy in Leo)

Click the image to see the full size picture (1.57"/pixel).		 M66 - Galaxy in Leo, 24.05.2003 (21:55 - 22:32 UT)
Resolution: 2.36 arcsec/pixel
Camera: Vesta 675SC2 + 0.6FR
Telescope: 8" F6 Orion Europa Newtonian
Result focal ratio: F3.6
Exposure: 48x45s (gain 100%), AMP OFF, DF, FF
Seeing: soft wind

The galaxy is part of Leo Galaxy Triplet. It is 35 million light years far away from the Earth.

Processing:
1, 48 frames captured and summed in X2 mode in K3CCDTools
2, histogram stretching and gamma 1.20
3, resized to 2/3 of size in Corel PhotoPaint

Click the image to see the full size picture (1.57"/pixel).		 The same AVI source as above, but harder postprocessing (gamma 1.50) in K3CCDTools.


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Last Update: 03.06.2003