The Messier galaxies M95 (bottom right) and M96 (bottom centre) with M105 at top, as the largest galaxy in a trio, with NGC 3389 (bottom left) and NGC 3384 (top left in the trio), all in Leo. M95 and M96 are barred spiral galaxies, while M105 is an elliptical. This is a stack of 20 x 6-minute exposures at ISO 1600 with the Canon EOS Ra camera on the Astro-Physics 130mm EDF refractor at f/6 with the AP 6x7 field flattener. Guided with the MGEN3 autoguider and dithered 5 pixels between each exposure and median stacked. Taken April 15, 2021.
The galaxy trio M98 (at right near the star 6 Comae), M99, the Coma Pinwheel (at bottom), and M100 (at upper left), captured in a deep blue twilight sky on June 4, 2019. The pair of NGC 4602 and NGC 4298 are left of M99 at bottom left. Images taken later under darker skies were plagued by haze moving in. Despite the bright sky galaxies as faint as magnitude 14.5 are recorded. This is a stack of 6 x 2-minute exposures at ISO 1600 with the Canon 6D MkII and Astro-Physics Traveler 105mm apo refractor at f/5.8 with the Hotech field flattener. Shot for a book illustration.
Messier 101, the Pinwheel Galaxy in Ursa Major, a classic face-on spiral galaxy, large and obvious in binoculars. The odd galaxy at bottom is NGC 5474. This is a stack of 9 x 10-minute exposures with the Canon EOS Ra camera at ISO 800 through the Astro-Physics 130mm apo refractor at f/6 with the 6x7 field flattener lens.
