FreeLists / az-observing / [AZ-Observing] One Last Picture - Trio of Galaxies in Leo and NGC 3628's tital tail

["Jon Christensen" <jonc97@xxxxxxx>]

This is my last picture for a while.  I promise.  This is a picture I shot in 
February of the trio of galaxies in Leo.  My sole intent for taking this 
picture was to photograph the long tidal tail of NGC 3628, which I have never 
seen a photograph of.  
I am guessing that most of the faint little dots throughout this image are 
galaxies and not stars (could be wrong).   There were several of asteriods in 
this shot, the brightest of which I clone stamped out of the image.   Not much 
of a 'pretty  picture', but fun and interesting for me, anyway.  At F/3 my 
astrograph alows me to go extremely deep relatively quickly, so I can image 
very faint objects in a relatively short period of time.  Here is the color 
version:

http://members.cox.net/jonc97/images/astro/galaxies/leotrio.htm

And here is a negative black and white version with the contrast adjusted to 
show the tidal tail more clearly:

http://members.cox.net/jonc97/images/astro/galaxies/ngc3628.htm


Thanks again for looking,



Jon Christensen
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