A Big Hamburger (NGC 3628)

[lukebl]

Hi,

This is my take on the Hamburger Galaxy, NGC 3628 in Leo. Usually seen in a wider field with its neighbours M65 and M66. Perhaps a bit too big for my modest setup of a small sensor and long focal length, which has resulted in a pixel scale of 0.577 arcsec/pixel

I am plagued by big dust bunnies which no end of flats won't remove, so I haven't been able to stretch the image as much as I'd like to pull out the fainter distant galaxies.

Atik428ex, Omegon f/8 200mm Ritchey-Chrétien. 148 x 300s luminance. 25 x 60s each RGB, binned x2. Field of view 18.6 x 14 arcmin.

[peter shah]

super detail.... great scale too

[DaveS]

Agree, tremendous detail in the central dust lane.