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| Description: | This spiral galaxy is highly inclined to our
view and appears to be the least impacted by the grativational interaction
with the other members of the Trio in Leo. The group is 30 million
light-years distant and includes M66 and
NGC3628. |
| Exposure Data: | 2/19/2002. LRGB: 12x5m, 6x3m, 6x3m, 6x5m.
RGB binned 2x2. -20°C, 1.02 arc-sec./pixel. |
| Processing: | Acquired in Maxim, Reduced, aligned and Min/max
clip in Mira, Double size and RGB combine in Maxim, 5 RL iterations in
CCDSharp, curves, levels, flatten, unsharp mask and gaussian blur in
Photoshop. |
| Optical System: | 10” Ritchey-Chretien @ F/7, ST-8E NABG/CFW-8A
CCD camera, AP900GTO mount. |
| Comments: | Seeing was around 3.2 arc-sec. |