NGC 3628, the faintest of the 3 galaxies in the Leo Triplet.
I really would have liked to have collected more subs for this image, but seeing the lousy weather forecast I decided to go ahead and process what I had. It would have been good to have more exposure time to bring down the noise. As it was, it made the processing difficult and I lost some detail, especially around the edges of the galaxy. I'm looking forward to trying again when it comes back around next year.
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Andy, despite your own assessment of the outcome, that's a mighty fine image of the only 1/3 of Leo without an "M" preceding it. There's some serious stuff going on there with those massive dust lanes.
Mike
"The purpose of life is the investigation of the Sun, the Moon, and the heavens." - Anaxagoras
Wow, Andy. That looks just like the one I posted today.
Tom H
"Science knows no country, because knowledge belongs to humanity, and is the torch which illuminates the world. Science is the highest personification of the nation because that nation will remain the first which carries the furthest the works of thought and intelligence." - Louis Pasteur
