More images of M65 and M66 (and the Leo Triplett)

The Leo Triplett galaxies show up in this image by Alexander Jäger

of the Interessengemeinschaft Astronomie.

The three galaxies form a triangle about at the center of this image;

M65 is on the most right (western, or preceding)

galaxy, right abd slightly above M66, the brightest.

Almost exactly above (north) of M66 is

NGC 3628, the faintest of the three,

a beautiful edge-on galaxy.

This image was obtained on April 21, 1996, 22:46 UT, with a 600-mm f/5.6

telephoto lens, exposed 1 minute and 30 seconds on Kodak Ektachrome Panther

P1600X, from Schwarzenberg-Bödele, Austria.