This is the deepest shot to date for me for this very interesting galaxy group in Leo. The Primary galaxy bottom center is NGC3190, a 12.1 magnitude type Sa spiral, which is 4.4x1.2 mins in size. Its brownish dust lanes extend to the very limits of the visible portion here. Very much contrasting, it the galaxy at the upper left, NGC3193 an Elliptical class object, with a magnitude of 11.8, and a size of 2 arcmins. It's tawny color is the result of large numbers of old yellow stars. The most interesting object is to the upper right NGC3187, a 13.4 magnitude spiral galaxy, with unusually long and low surface brightness arm extensions. You can see some small pink HII regions in this object, in the outer arms, which are very blue.

Contrast enhanced image reveals the huge outer envelopes that seem to extend around each of the individual galaxies.

Instrument:  12.5" f/5 Home made Newtonian
Platform:  Astrophysics 1200 QMD
CCD Camera:  SBIG ST7E w/Enhanced Cooling
Exposure:  LRGB = 60:20:20:36 (RGB Binned 2x2)
Filters:  RGB Tricolor
Location:  Payson, Arizona
Elevation:  5150 ft.
Sky:  Seeing FMHW = 2.1 arcsec, Transparency 8/10
Outside Temperature:  0 C
CCD Temperature:  -35 C
Processing:  Maxim DL, Photoshop, AIP4WIN, PW Pro.