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| Description: | This spiral galaxy is part of the Trio in Leo,
a group of galaxies 30 million light-years distant. It is thought to
be somewhat distorted from the interaction with the other
members of the group: M65 and
NGC3628. |
| Exposure Data: | 2/11/2004. LRGB: 20x3mL, 7x3mR,
7x3mG,
7x4mB. RGB binned 2x2. -20°C, .59 arc-sec./pixel. |
| Processing: | Acquired via Sequencer II and CCDSoft, reduced and aligned in Mira, Combined in Sigma, L 20xRL
in AIP4WIN, DDP
in Maxim, LLRGB combine, curves, levels and other processing in Photoshop. |
| Optical System: | 14.5” Ritchey-Chretien RCOS Truss @ F/6.4,
ST-10XME NABG/CFW-8A
CCD camera, Paramount ME. Unguided! |
| Comments: | Deconvolved to 2.0 arc-sec. |