NGC 3628

One third of the Leo Triplet NGC 3628 is often called the Hamburger Galaxy. It is an edge on spiral galaxy located 35 million light years from here. The disk of NGC 3628 is warped and there is a long relatively faint tidal tail which is the result of interaction with M65 and M66 the other members of the triplet.

Imaged in LRGB on our RiDK 700 and Planewave CDK 700 at Observatorio El Sauce, Chile.
Image Processing: Mark Hanson and Mike Selby

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Mark & Mike