The M95 galaxy (also known as NGC 3351), located in the constellation Leo, is a barred spiral galaxy 32 million light.
Imaging Details
- Workflow: LRGB
- Lum Filter: 50*180
- Red Filter: 10*300 seconds
- Green Filter: 10*300 seconds
- Blue Filter: 10*300 seconds
- Binning: 1×1
- Total Imaging Time: 5 hours
- Imaging Dates (5 nights):
- 4/3/2021
- 5/4/2021
- 5/7/2021
M95 Imaging Notes
Midway through imaging M95, I cleaned my optics and damaged my focal reducer. I had to restart my imaging run of M95 without the reducer in place, drastically slowing down my imaging rig and narrowing my field of view.
Due to the lost time, I was only able to gather around 5 hours of data, resulting in an image that is still quite noisy. However, having this narrower field of view does help to bring about more details/structure within the galaxy. I will save the calibrated images and try to capture additional frames early in 2022.
