Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Leo (Leo)  ·  Contains:  IC 2725  ·  NGC 3628
NGC 3628: Hamburger Galaxy, ivnlpz
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NGC 3628: Hamburger Galaxy

NGC 3628: Hamburger Galaxy, ivnlpz
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NGC 3628: Hamburger Galaxy

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NGC 3628, also known as the Hamburger Galaxy or Sarah’s Galaxy, is a famous unbarred spiral galaxy located in Leo constellation. The galaxy is about 100,000 light years across and occupies an area of 15 by 3.6 arcminutes of the apparent sky.

The Hamburger Galaxy can be found only 0.5 degrees to the north of the galaxy pair Messier 65 and Messier 66, between the relatively bright stars Theta and Iota Leonis. The Hamburger Galaxy has an apparent magnitude of 10.2 and lies at an approximate distance of 35 million light years from Earth.

This is my first galaxy using HaLRGB and it was definitely more challenging than my usual SHO targets. I'll definitely need to capture more Ha frames to reduce the noise that it introduced.

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