{"id":27795,"date":"2020-05-31T01:00:55","date_gmt":"2020-05-31T11:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/?p=27795"},"modified":"2020-06-01T13:36:35","modified_gmt":"2020-06-01T23:36:35","slug":"leo-galaxies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/?p=27795","title":{"rendered":"Leo Galaxies"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Just killing some time while I wait for the Milky Way to rise and to shoot my primary targets for the night.  Maybe some galaxies in Leo?  There are a lot to choose from, but I am setup for wide field using the TV-76mm with only 389mm of focal length.  Too wide to make individual galaxies interesting, maybe a galaxy group?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The group around <a href=\"http:\/\/www.darkerview.com\/scripts\/query.php?M95\">M95<\/a>\/<a href=\"http:\/\/www.darkerview.com\/scripts\/query.php?M96\">M96<\/a>\/<a href=\"http:\/\/www.darkerview.com\/scripts\/query.php?M105\">M105<\/a> should be good, it fits in the field nicely. Just shoot for about an hour before moving on the the main targets of the night. With any luck those wisps of evening clouds hanging about will go away as well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There are a number of nice groupings of galaxies in Leo&#8230; The Leo Trio (M65, M66, and NGC3628), and this group around M95 and M96, and a number of fainter galaxy pairs and clusters to chose from.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/?attachment_id=27797\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"900\" height=\"900\" src=\"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/M96-Lum-10x60s-9x180s-3x600s-20200518.jpg\" alt=\"A group of galaxies in Leo including M95, M96, and M105\" class=\"wp-image-27797\" srcset=\"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/M96-Lum-10x60s-9x180s-3x600s-20200518.jpg 900w, https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/M96-Lum-10x60s-9x180s-3x600s-20200518-200x200.jpg 200w, https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/M96-Lum-10x60s-9x180s-3x600s-20200518-600x600.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/a><figcaption>A group of galaxies in Leo including M95, M96, and M105<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just killing some time while I wait for the Milky Way to rise and to shoot my primary targets for the night. Maybe some galaxies in Leo? There are a lot to choose from, but I am setup for wide field using the TV-76mm with only 389mm of focal length. Too wide to make individual &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/?p=27795\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Leo Galaxies&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":27797,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[34,260],"tags":[279,2727],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/M96-Lum-10x60s-9x180s-3x600s-20200518.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27795"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27795"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27795\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27821,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27795\/revisions\/27821"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/27797"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/darkerview.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}