Léo Trio

Image Description and Details :

The Leo Trio is a small cluster of interacting galaxies located about 35 million light years from Earth.
On the left-hand side of the image, the near-vertical bar with a thin band of black dust represents the galaxy NGC 3628, magnitude 9.5, seen from the edge. It is also known as the Hamburger Galaxy.
Messier objects M 65 (NGC 3623), magnitude 9.3, below the upper right-hand corner, and M 66 (NGC 3627), magnitude 8.9, to the left of the lower right-hand corner, are tilted enough for their spiral arms to be visible.
This image was taken in Perche-Normandy France.
The total acquisition time is 5h15 in L,R,G,B.
The image was taken with a Newton 250-900 telescope (F/D 4), Moravian G2 4000 camera on EQ8 Skywatcher mount

Copyright: Francis Bozon