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Old 04-05-2015, 05:35 PM
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Leo Triplet and The Tidal Tail of NGC 3628

It 'was an odyssey set aside the data to make this photo. It took me a few months. Inside the Leo Triplet , a tris of galaxies with NGC3628, M65 and M66. In particular, I tried to show the tidal tail of NGC3628, a length that say amazing is an understatement.

I hope you'll find it interesting:
http://www.starkeeper.it/LeoTriplet.htm

A web link to a doc about star formation in the tidal tail of the Leo Triplet Galaxy NGC3628 from the Astronomical Journal:
http://m.iopscience.iop.org/1538-388...0514.text.html

All the best and thanks for looking,
Leo
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