Leo Triplet – Three Galaxies at the Limit of Backyard Astrophotography
February 20, 2013
After getting a pretty good image of the Orion Nebula from my backyard, I wanted to try some tougher targets. With about half the moon in view and it sitting near Orion, I had to move away from the Milky Way to find a good deep space object to image. I tried the Christmas Tree Cluster first. The r…