SUNSET: 
0
Photographer:
massimo.difusco
Location of Photo:
Ferrara (Italy)
Date/Time of photo:
07/02/2025 00:00
Equipment:
Konus 200/1000 @950mm, Player One Poseidon-C camera, Sky-Watcher Eq6r Pro mount, Optolong L-Quad Enhance filter
Description:
After 4 years, I reshoot this little known and photographed subject to try to do it better. Leo I is a spheroidal dwarf galaxy in the constellation of Leo, about 820000 light years from us, which is part of the Local Group and is thought to be one of the most distant satellite galaxies of the Milky Way. In the sky it is only 12 arcsec above the star Regulus, for this reason the galaxy is sometimes called Regulus's dwarf, and precisely the proximity between the two makes Leo I difficult to identify, given the great brightness of the main star of Leo that is about 10 magnitudes more bright than the galaxy.
