With this title I am not referring to the papacy, but the local dwarf galaxy near the star Regulus, which I was thrilled to pick up on this photo. Not a fantastically sharp picture, like some of those all-nighters on the internet, but artistically composed let's say. Those dedicated astrophotographers are blessed with fantastically dark non-misty skies and $1000s worth of equipment, whereas I have UK weather, UK light pollution, a hand made scope, a reconditioned D-SLR and little patience. There is also a 14th magnitude galaxy at the bottom - North is right on this pic. It was 6 x 30 second RAW images converted to TIFs, detrailed and then stacked in DSS (apologies for all the TLAs).
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