About
this Object
Part of the Leo Triplet, NGC 3628 is listed as magnitude
9.6 and lies an estimated 35 million light years distant. NGC
3628
must have had a close encounter with another galaxy in its past as it
has a tidal tail of stars that streams out to east from
the northern part of the galaxy. The tail is extremely faint and
it took nearly 16hrs of exposure time to detect it. Down in
the bottom right corner is a bit of M65. A good many fainter
galaxies to magnitude 17.9 are visible around the image,
several red shifted due to thier extreme distance.
