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M65 (Galaxy, in Leo)
Observer: Joe Caggiano (e-mail: jcaggiano@mindspring.com, web: http://home.mindspring.com/~jcaggiano/)
Instrument: 70-mm binoculars Location: Promised Land State Park, Pa, USA
Light pollution: none Transparency: excellent Seeing: excellent
Time: Sun Apr 22 06:00:00 2007 UT Obs. no.: 1640
From our campsite in Promised Land State Park in Northeastern Pennsylvania, we had incredibly clear skies for our annual trout fishing trip. The night sky was the best I had seen ever up there! It was about as dark as my trip a few years ago to West Virginia. With my binos I finally saw the "Trio in Leo". M65, M66 and NGC3628 all appeared readily. I could even make out the spiral structure in M66. I estimate that M65 and M66 have about the same angular distance as M81 and M82 (which I aslo viewed.)The Leo Triplets are about 35 million LY distant.
M65 (Galaxy, in Leo)
Observer: Sriram.M.Gubbi (e-mail: sriram_gubbi@yahoo.co.in, web: http://dino.lm.com/artists/display.php?name=sriram_gubbi)
Instrument: 6-inch other Location: Bangalore, Karnataka, India
Light pollution: moderate Transparency: good Seeing: good
Time: Tue Jan 3 04:45:00 2006 UT Obs. no.: 1469
The neighbouring galaxy of M66. Its spiral structure was easily visible but it was a bit dimmer than M66 and was difficult to see. It appeared a bit larger than M66. Both gave a wonderful sight and I was quite surprized to see these two from a light polluted area.
M65 (Galaxy, in Leo)
Observer: Vedran vrhovac (e-mail: vedran_vrhovac@yahoo.com)
Instrument: 8-inch Dobsonian reflector Location: Velika Gorica, Croatia
Light pollution: light Transparency: good Seeing: poor
Time: Thu Dec 8 04:40:00 2005 UT Obs. no.: 1429
This morning I woke up to go to school. When I looked thru window I have noticed that there's no fog or clouds and lots of stars wherevisible. I quickly dressed up and went outside to look thru scope since this was first night without fog and clouds in last two monts. The Leo was high at the south and I decided to hunt M65 and the M66. I have put the 32mm eyepiece (38x) and pointed scope to the Theta Leonis. Just few degrees to the south I saw 3 galaxies in FOV. Since sky was to bright at 38x i used the 15mm wide angle eyepiece (80x) and all 3 galaxies where still in one FOV but with much better contrast.M65 was long oval nebula with no defined center, the M66 was little smaller but more round oval than M65. M66 also had bright center. NGC3628 was big, but much fainter and almost horizontally laid nebula.After amazing Leo triplet i turned scope to the M51. M51 with companion was easily visible. M51 looked like round disk with uneven surface brightnes and bright center. NGC5195 was smaller (about 1/5) and looked like small globular cluster thru 70mm scope. After looking at the M51 I turn scope litlle lower and changed eyepiece back to the 32mm Plossl. When I looked thru the eyepiece and focused I saw M3 inf FOV. "Am I lucky guy ornot?" I thought. Since it was GC i switched to the 6mm Plossl eyepice and looked again at M3. What a superb cluster. Withaverted vision thousand of stars where visible. After this shorth breathtaking sight I finished my observing session becouse it was time to goto the school. I can't waith for March when this object will be visible in the evening.
M65 (Galaxy, in Leo)
Observer: Michael Amato (e-mail: abigmick@aol.com)
Instrument: 20-inch Dobsonian reflector Location: West Haven, Connecticut, United States
Light pollution: none Transparency: excellent Seeing: excellent
Time: Sun Mar 17 02:30:00 2002 UT Obs. no.: 624
M65 showed a bright core. the wings showed very well in the 20" scope.M66 was more ragged looking.Dust lanes seemed to show in the galaxy. NGC3628 was the largest and the dimmest of the three galaxies. It was edge on.
M65 (Galaxy, in Leo)
Observer: John Callender (e-mail: jbc@west.net, web: http://www.west.net/~jbc/)
Instrument: 8-inch Dobsonian reflector Location: Carpinteria, CA, USA
Light pollution: light Transparency: good Seeing: good
Time: Sat Apr 18 06:45:00 1998 UT Obs. no.: 322
All three galaxies (M65, M66 and NGC 3628) fit in the same 38X field; a very dramatic sight. M65 was an obvious, elongated smudge extending N-S.
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