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Leo triplet

The Leo Triplet, or the M66 Group, is a group of interacting spiral galaxies located in the northern constellation leo. The group consists of the galaxies Messier65, Messier 66 and NGC 3628 also known as the Hamburger Galaxy.

16"f3.7 dream scope astrograph 16803 CCD New Mexico 5x300sec Lum 5X300sec Red 5X300sec Green 5X300sec blue 1x1

Image credit copyright : Michael Petrakos Muir Evenden, Utkarsh Mishra

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Leo Triplet

Image Description and Details : The Leo Triplet, or the M66 Group, is a group of interacting spiral galaxies located in the northern constellation Leo.
The group consists of the galaxies Messier 65 (NGC 3623), Messier 66 (NGC 3627) and NGC 3628, also known as the Hamburger Galaxy. The Leo Triplet lies at an approximate distance of 35 million light years from Earth.
In this photo we can see the M66 (upper left), M65 (lower left) and NGC 3628 (right).

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