✨ NGC 3628 – The Hamburger Galaxy ✨

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Lights: 60x300" (LRGB)

Telescope: Planewave CDK24

Camera: QHY 600M

Filters: LRGB Astrodon

Date: 21/02/2023

Meet the stunning Hamburger Galaxy 🌌 — an edge-on spiral about 35 million light-years away in Leo. Its dark dust lane cuts across the shining disk, giving it that iconic cosmic burger look 🍔.

NGC 3628 is part of the famous Leo Triplet, together with M65 and M66, and shows a massive tidal tail stretching nearly 300,000 light-years — proof that galaxies are constantly interacting and evolving.

📍 Constellation: Leo

📍 Coordinates: RA 11h 20m 17s | Dec +13° 35′ 23″

📍 Apparent Magnitude: ~10.2

📍 Distance: ~35 million ly

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✨ NGC 3628 – The Hamburger Galaxy ✨