Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Leo (Leo)  ·  Contains:  M 65  ·  M 66  ·  NGC 3623  ·  NGC 3627
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M65 & M66, Patrick Dufour
M65 & M66
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M65 & M66

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M65 & M66

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Nearby and bright, spiral galaxies M65 (right) and M66 from Leo Triplet of galaxies. They are just 35 million light-years distant and around 100,000 light-years across, about the size of our own spiral Milky Way.

52x 300sec for Luminance

30x 300sec for R,G,B

24x 600sec for HAlpha

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M65 & M66, Patrick Dufour

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