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

This image is a view of an edge-on spiral galaxy named NGC 3628, AKA “The Hamburger Galaxy”. A fluffy galactic hamburger shaped galaxy divided by a dark dust lane.

The galaxy is about 100,000 light-years across and 35 million light-years away in the springtime constellation of Leo.

NGC 3628 shares its neighborhood in the local Universe with two other large spirals M65 and M66 in a grouping otherwise known as the Leo Triplet. Gravitational interactions with its cosmic neighbors are likely responsible for the extended flare and warp of this spiral's disk.