By SAMIT SAHA | 2025-03-30
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The Hamburger Galaxy
On 03/26/2025 11:50 pm by Steven Bellavia | Website | Staunton River State Park, VA
The Hamburger Galaxy, NGC 3628
This is the fainter sibling of the Leo triplet, which contains M65 and M66, which are not in this close-up image.
It is an unbarred spiral galaxy about 35 million light-years away, discovered by William Herschel in 1784
Apertura 6-inch Classic Cassegrain
Baader Alan-Gee reducer
ZWO AIS 294MM Pro, cooled to -10C
SkyWatcher EQ6R Pro equatorial mount
7.65 hours of data from an IDA dark sky site, using LRGB filters and PixInsight for alignment, stacking and post-processing
