NGC 3628

Constellation- Leo

Right Ascension: 11h 20m 31s

Declination: +13° 34' 42"

Distance- 35,000,000 light years

Visual brightness- 9.5 mag

Apparent dimension- 14.0 x 3.6 arc minutes

Image info:

Date- April 24, 2004

Telescope/Focal length/Camera- NexStar 11GPS @ f/7.05, ST-8XE NABG @ -10C, autoguided with CCDSoft Ver. 5.0

Integrations- 5 x 600 seconds binned 2x2

Processing- Flats and darks in CCDSoft, Sigma combined in Sigma Beta 11, levels, curves and unsharp masked in Photoshop 5.0