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While searching for comet 43P last night (didn’t find it), I took a break from the search for a while and imaged NGC 3395 and 3396.

NGC 3395 and 3396 are a fairly bright pair of galaxies (visual magnitude 12.1) in constellation Leo Minor. Both galaxies are at an estimated distance of 85 million light years and are thought to be in the process of merging. UV observations with the Hubble telescope have found knots of material believed to be star forming regions in both galaxies.

NGC 3396 is to the upper left and 3395 is at a right angle and down in below image (north is approximately up and east to the left).

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