NGC 3628 (UGC 6350) Galaxy in Leo

Located at: RA 11 hours 20 minutes16 seconds, Dec +13 degrees 35 minutes 22 seconds

Size: 14.8' x 2.9'; Magnitude: 10.3 blue; Class: Sb pec sp

North is up

West to the right

Telescope:

 8" f5 Newtonian reflector

Camera:

 ST-8XME, self-guided, binned 1x1, temp -20c & -25c, camera control MaxIm DL 4.56

Image:

Lumicon Deep Sky filter, 540 minutes (54 x 10 minute subs), 05/21/26/27/28/2008; seeing 2.2-5.6 FWHM per CCDStack

Processing:

CCDStack 1.3.2, Photoshop 7.0

Location:

 Rolling Roof Observatory, Thousand Oaks, CA 91360 (+34d 13m 29s -118h 52m 20s)

Notes:

This large on-edge Galaxy is the third member of the "Leo Trio", which includes Messier 65 and Messier 66