Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Leo (Leo)  ·  Contains:  M 95  ·  NGC 3351
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M95, Kurt Zeppetello
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M95 or NGC 3351 is a barred spiral galaxy in the constellation Leo and is approximately 38 million light-years away. Interestingly, a supernova discovered in M95 on 16 March 2012. (source: wikipedia)

This was captured last week during that cold but clear weather window. I was not planning to image this but it was visible while I was waiting for other objects to become visible from my location. I was very happy since this was 3 Messier's for the price of 1. If they were all like this I would be done shooting the Messier Objects by now. New website: kurtzeppetello.smugmug.com.

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M95, Kurt Zeppetello

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