Exposures: 80 minutes of Lum (10 min subs) and 40 min each of RGB (5 min subs) for a total of 3 hrs 20 min.
In this image, M65 is top right; M66 bottom right, and NGC 3628 to the left. North is left. Each of the three galaxies is a spiral, however their disks are tilted at different angles from our perspective. M66 and NGC3628 at one time underwent gravitational warping (likely due to M65 passing through).
Located 30 million light years away
FOV = 79.5 x 57 arc minutes
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