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This image was created by median combining 20 x 30 second unfiltered images taken with a Takahashi Epsilon 250 with SBIG ST-8XE CCD. The image has been cut down to be 30 x 30 arc minutes in size.
Messier 65 (M65, NGC 3623), together with its neighbors M66 and NGC 3628, form a conspicuous triplet of galaxies at a distance of about 35 million light years.
M65 is a very typical spiral galaxy with tightly wound spiral arms and a prominent dust lane.
M66 is rather larger than its neighbour, M65. Its spiral arms are deformed, probably because of the encounters with its neighbours and are distorted and displaced above the plane of the galaxy.
In collaboration with the Remote Astronomical Society Observatory
Martin Nicholson - Daventry, United Kingdom.
This page was last updated on April 15th 2009.