NGC 3628: The Hamburger (Richard Francis)

Celestial hemisphere: Northern · Constellation: Leo (Leo) · Contains: NGC 3628

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NGC 3628: The Hamburger

NGC 3628, also known as Sarah's Galaxy (though I don't know why) or, more prosaically, The Hamburger Galaxy, is one the Leo Triplet of galaxies, the other two being M65 and M66. Unlike the two which Messier spotted, NGC 3628 was discovered by William Herschel in 1784. The galaxy is 35 million lightyears away.

The galaxy, seen edge on features a broad lane of dust which obscures the central regions. This dust lane, like much of the galaxy itself, has an unusual shape and indicates some significant gravitational disturbance. In fact he galaxy seems to be interacting gravitationally with the other two members of the triplet, and further evidence of this is a very long tidal tail, which is not visible in this image.

This is the first image with my new astroimaging system and observatory and I took it as part of the on-going commissioning process. There is still quite a lot of tweaking up of the equipment needed!

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Description: Fully reprocessed following Warren Keller's book, with the addition of 2x 900s Luminance images taken at the time but not previously used.

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Status	Advanced success
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Astrometry.net job	2012241
PixInsight job	ZA1732V28KM4YYOET5P8L8KG2MELV9YC
PixInsight queue size	n/a
PixInsight stage	n/a

RA (center)	11h20m20s.290
RA (top/left)	11h19m05s.312
RA (top/right)	11h20m17s.370
RA (bottom/right)	11h21m35s.212
RA (bottom/left)	11h20m23s.246

Dec (center)	+13°35′15″.56
Dec (top/left)	+13°41′23″.96
Dec (top/right)	+13°16′02″.57
Dec (bottom/right)	+13°29′06″.60
Dec (bottom/left)	+13°54′28″.93

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