✨ The M66 Group (Leo Triplet)
📷 ASI 294 MC Pro Color
🔭 Star Adventurer 2i
🔎 Askar FMA180 apo (180mm f/4.5)
🕶️ Broadband Filter IDAS NGS1 (2")
🌌 Gain 120 (-10°C), 32x120s (1h 4min)
🧪 40 dark, 40 flat, 40 dark-flat
💻 Siril, RawTherapee, GIMP, Snapseed
📍 Turin (Piedmont, Italy) - Bortle 8
📅 May 20, 2026
✨ The M66 Group (Leo Triplet)
📷 ASI 294 MC Pro Color
🔭 Star Adventurer 2i
🔎 Askar FMA180 apo (180mm f/4.5)
🕶️ Broadband Filter IDAS NGS1 (2")
🌌 Gain 120 (-10°C), 32x120s (1h 4min)
🧪 40 dark, 40 flat, 40 dark-flat
💻 Siril, RawTherapee, GIMP, Snapseed
📍 Turin (Piedmont, Italy) - Bortle 8
📅 May 20, 2026
📷 ASI 294 MC Pro Color
🔭 Star Adventurer 2i
🔎 Askar FMA180 apo (180mm f/4.5)
🕶️ Broadband Filter IDAS NGS1 (2")
🌌 Gain 120 (-10°C), 35x120s (1h 10 min)
🧪 40 dark, 40 flat, 40 dark-flat
💻 Siril, RawTherapee, GIMP, Snapseed
📍 Turin (Piedmont, Italy) - Bortle 8
📅 May 14, 2026
📷 ASI 294 MC Pro Color
🔭 Star Adventurer 2i
🔎 Askar FMA180 apo (180mm f/4.5)
🕶️ Broadband Filter IDAS NGS1 (2")
🌌 Gain 120 (-10°C), 35x120s (1h 10 min)
🧪 40 dark, 40 flat, 40 dark-flat
💻 Siril, RawTherapee, GIMP, Snapseed
📍 Turin (Piedmont, Italy) - Bortle 8
📅 May 14, 2026
📷 ASI 294 MC Pro Color
🔭 Star Adventurer 2i
🔎 Askar FMA180 apo (180mm f/4.5)
🕶️ Broadband Filter IDAS NGS1 (2")
🌌 Gain 120 (-10°C), 35x120s (1h 10 min)
🧪 40 dark, 40 flat, 40 dark-flat
💻 Siril, RawTherapee, GIMP, Snapseed
📍 Turin (Piedmont, Italy) - Bortle 8
📅 May 14, 2026
M81 Group & IFN — The Beginning of Galaxy Season: a nearby assembly of interacting galaxies, dominated by M81 and M82, bound by gravity and shaped by tidal encounters; their light traveling ~12 million years to reach us. Around them, the faint Integrated Flux Nebula — interstellar dust illuminated by the combined glow of the Milky Way — weaves a barely visible veil across the scene.
This is one of the first highlights of Galaxy Season — the time of year from March to July when our night sky opens a window into the depths of intergalactic space, revealing countless distant galaxies. This is a scene reimagined as a cosmic tarot card.
• ASI 294 MC Pro Color
• IDAS NGS1 (2")
• Askar FMA18 Pro (180mm f/4.5)
• 2h integration
• Bortle 5 sky
⚠️ DISCLAIMER ⚠️
The tarot-style frame is AI generated
This is part of a series I'm calling Starotography — star · tarot · photography. Each card features my own (real) astrophotography framed with AI-crafted Art Nouveau illustrations that match the object's name or mythology. The Rosette Nebula basically designed itself.