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 There are a few nights a year which
            the seeing is extraordinary. This was one of them, the faintest
            star images are too small to show up in small 800 size images,
            so only larger images are seen here. Some refer to this group
            as the "Leo Quad", others the NGC3190 trio. Here we
            see a group of galaxies of amazing diversity. The centerpiece
            is NGC3190, an 11.7 magnitude SA peculiar spiral with a warped
            equatorial dust lane. Other galaxies are:

            
Upper left corner -
            NGC3185, a 13th magnitude SB spiral

            
Lower right of NGC3190
            - NGC3193, a 12.1 magnitude E2 Elliptical

            
Lower left of NGC3190
            - NGC3187, a 13.4 magnitude SB peculiar

            
There are hordes of
            very faint galaxies over the entire field. Please check out the
            largest image, there you will see resolved hundreds of faint
            almost stellar galaxies, especially near the barred spiral. They
            range in brightness from 17 for the brightest to 20 for the faint
            nearly stellar objects. I've also left the background slightly
            lighter than normal to show off the faint galaxies, and the nebulous
            bridge that seems to appear between some galaxies.

Instrument:  12.5" f/5 Home made Newtonian
Platform:  Astrophysics 1200 QMD
CCD Camera:  SBIG ST8i NABG with Enhanced Cooling
Guider: SBIG ST4
Exposure:  CRGB = 60:20:20:20 (RGB Binned 2x2)
RGB Combine Ratio:  1: 1.1: 1.9
Filters:  AstroDon RGB Tricolor
Location:  Payson, Arizona
Elevation:  5150 ft.
Sky:  Seeing FWHM = 2 arcsec (Maxim DL - 10min subframe), Transparency 8/10
Outside Temperature:  10 C
CCD Temperature:  -30 C
Processing Tools:  Maxim DL,  Photoshop, PixInsight, RW Debloomer.
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