Celestial hemisphere:  Southern  ·  Constellation: Hydra (Hya)  ·  Contains:  NGC 3621
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NGC3621

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NGC3621

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NGC3621, 22 Mly away in Hydra.

NGC 3621 appears roughly 9.8 x 4.0 arcminutes in size, corresponding to a physical diameter of 62178 light years. It is a barred spiral galaxy of morphological type SBcd, and is receding at 730 kilometers per second - about 0.2% of light speed.

This is a LRGB image.
Imaged from my backyard.
ASIAIR, AZEQ6 , Sharpstar SCA260 , ASI2600MM, Antlia RGB filters.
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Bortle 6

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