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UGC 03679, MCG +07-15-006 & UGC 03673

Galaxy Triplet in Lynx consisting of UGC 03679 galaxy type S? (lower left), MCG +07-15-006 spiral
galaxy type Sb (center) and UGC 03673 spiral galaxy type SABcd (upper right). This trio of galaxies
is listed in “A Catalog of Nearby Poor Clusters of Galaxies “ as WBL 130. It is also listed in the “Atlas of
Galaxy Trios” as GT40. Taken Jan 28 thru Feb 15, 2012. Imaged with CCD Lab’s Q285M camera and a
Celestron EdgeHD 9.25 at f10, on a Losmandy G11/Gemini mount. The L subframes were 15 minutes binned
1x1, while the RGB subframes were 4 minutes binned 2x2 resulting in the following total exposures
L:R:G:B (min) = 450:64:64:64. Captured with Nebulosity, calibrated, sigma combined in Iris with other
processing using PixInsight LE and Photoshop CS. North is up.


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