Leo I + Massimo Di Fusco + L-QEF (L-Quad Enhance Filter)

Leo I

Credit:  Massimo Di Fusco (Italy)

Filters: Optolong L-QEF (L-Quad Enhance Filter)

 

 

After 4 years, I went back to re-photograph this little-known subject to try to improve it, but with such a big star in the field all the defects of my old Konus come out. 
This is Leo I, a spheroidal dwarf galaxy in the constellation Leo, about 820,000 light years from us, which is part of the Local Group and is considered one of the most distant satellite galaxies in the Milky Way.
In the sky it is only 12 arcminutes above the star Regulus, which is why the galaxy is sometimes called the Regulus dwarf, and the very proximity between the two makes Leo I difficult to identify, given the great brightness of the main star of Leo, which is about 10 magnitudes brighter than the galaxy.

 

 

Konus 200/1000 @950mm, f/4.8
Player One Poseidon-C camera @-5 °C
Sky-Watcher Eq6r Pro mount
Optolong L-Quad Enhance filter 60x10’
Optolong L-Quad Enhance filter 81x60’
Optolong L-Quad Enhance filter 129x180’
N.I.N.A., APP, PixInsight, PS
Ferrara (Italy)

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