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I agreeImaging telescope or lens:Takahashi TOA-150
Imaging camera:Moravian Instruments G2-4000
Mount:Paramount MX+
Guiding telescope or lens:Takahashi TOA-150
Guiding camera:Starlight Xpress Loadestar X2
Software:Pleiades Astrophoto PixInsight
Filter:ASTRONOMIK RGB Typ 2c
Accessories:Innovations Foresight ONAG SC, FLI Atlas Focuser, TAKAHASHI TOA-67 Flattener
Resolution: 3543x2362
Dates:April 20, 2018
Frames: 140x600"
Integration: 23.3 hours
Avg. Moon age: 4.77 days
Avg. Moon phase: 23.64%
Astrometry.net job: 2020327
RA center: 170.046 degrees
DEC center: 13.586 degrees
Pixel scale: 0.769 arcsec/pixel
Orientation: 359.043 degrees
Field radius: 0.455 degrees
Locations: Home Observatory, Kempsey, NSW, Australia
NGC 3628 is one of the Leo Triplets. This image shows a tidal stream off to the right, from the gravitational attraction of M65 and M66. The X-shaped bulge in the center of the galaxy suggests it may be a barred spiral with the bar seen end on. There is a small companion galaxy below the main galaxy, and the blue star like dot below this companion is a distant quasar.
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