Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Leo (Leo)  ·  Contains:  IC 2725  ·  NGC 3628
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NGC 3628, Roger Gifkins
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NGC 3628

Revision title: Hamburger Galaxy

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NGC 3628

Revision title: Hamburger Galaxy

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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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Title: Hamburger Galaxy

Description: Reprocessed from 2018 data, using the tools currently available in Pixinsight. Collectively these new tools give a dramatic improvement to the overall image. This image was from a mono CCD camera with fairly large pixels. It will be interesting to re-visit this target next year with the new CMOS camera and its smaller pixels.

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NGC 3628, Roger Gifkins