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tag-ngc-3623 tag-ngc-3628 tag-pierre-mechain tag-regulus tag-sn-2013am tag-theta-leonis tag-william-henry-smyth tag-william-herschel"> <div class="entry-header" ><div class="nv-title-meta-wrap"><small class="nv--yoast-breadcrumb neve-breadcrumbs-wrapper"><span><span><a href="https://www.messier-objects.com/">Home</a></span> » <span class="breadcrumb_last" aria-current="page">Messier 65</span></span></small><h1 class="title entry-title">Messier 65</h1><ul class="nv-meta-list"><li class="meta author vcard no-mobile"><span class="author-name fn">by <a href="https://www.messier-objects.com/author/admin/" title="Posts by admin" rel="author">admin</a></span></li><li class="meta date posted-on"><time class="entry-date published" datetime="2015-07-02T16:46:11+00:00" content="2015-07-02">July 2, 2015</time><time class="updated" datetime="2020-11-20T23:54:19+00:00">November 20, 2020</time></li></ul></div></div><div class="nv-content-wrap entry-content"><p>Messier 65 (M65) is an intermediate spiral galaxy that forms the <a href="https://www.messier-objects.com/leo-triplet/">Leo Triplet</a> with the nearby <a href="https://www.messier-objects.com/messier-66/">Messier 66</a> and <a href="https://www.messier-objects.com/ngc-3628-hamburger-galaxy/">NGC 3628</a><br /> <span id="more-1028"></span><br /> The three galaxies are located in the <a href="https://www.constellation-guide.com/constellation-list/leo-constellation/">constellation Leo</a>. M65 lies at a distance of about 35 million light years from Earth and has an apparent magnitude of 10.25. It has the designation NGC 3623 in the New General Catalogue.</p> <p>Messier 65 occupies an area of 8.079 by 2.454 arc minutes of apparent sky, which corresponds to a linear diameter of about 90,000 light years. It is one of the most popular targets among amateur astronomers as it can be seen and photographed in the same field of view as its neighbours, <a href="https://www.messier-objects.com/messier-66/">M66</a> and <a href="https://www.messier-objects.com/ngc-3628-hamburger-galaxy/">NGC 3628</a>.</p> <p>The galaxy lies in the eastern part of <a href="https://www.constellation-guide.com/constellation-list/leo-constellation/">Leo</a>. Thanks to its high surface brightness, it is visible even in small binoculars and appears as an oval shaped patch, along with its bright neighbour <a href="https://www.messier-objects.com/messier-66/">M66</a>. Small telescopes begin to reveal the structure of the pair, with a bright central core surrounded by a thin disk of light. To see the third member of the <a href="https://www.messier-objects.com/leo-triplet/">Leo Triplet</a>, however, one needs at least a 6-inch telescope. Larger telescopes reveal the dark dust lanes and other details of M65.</p> <p>Messier 65 can be found along the line from <a href="https://www.star-facts.com/denebola/">Denebola</a> to <a href="https://www.star-facts.com/regulus/">Regulus</a>. The galaxy lies right between the stars Iota Leonis and Chertan, Theta Leonis. It can be found only 3 degrees from Chertan. The best time of year to observe M65 is during the spring.</p> <figure id="attachment_1035" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-1035" style="width: 600px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><a href="https://www.messier-objects.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/Messier-65.jpg"><img fetchpriority="high" decoding="async" class="wp-image-1035" src="https://www.messier-objects.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/Messier-65.jpg" alt="m65,ngc 3623" width="600" height="349" srcset="https://www.messier-objects.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/Messier-65.jpg 722w, https://www.messier-objects.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/Messier-65-300x175.jpg 300w" sizes="(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px" /></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-1035" class="wp-caption-text">Messier 65. Image: ESO/INAF-VST/OmegaCAM. Acknowledgement: OmegaCen/Astro-WISE/Kapteyn Institute</figcaption></figure> <p>The <a href="https://www.messier-objects.com/leo-triplet/">Leo Triplet</a>, also known as the M66 Group, is a small grouping of galaxies that are known to be gravitationally interacting with each other. The interaction has affected all three galaxies, but M65 is the least affected of the group. With tightly wound spiral arms, a conspicuous central lense and a dust lane along the facing edge, M65 appears like a normal spiral galaxy. It is moving away from us at a velocity of about 807 km/s.</p> <p>Messier 65 contains little dust and gas and, even though its spiral arms show some evidence of recent star forming activity, there is overall little star formation occurring in it and the ratio of old, evolved stars to young ones is quite high.</p> <p>The recent star formation and the galaxy’s disk, which appears slightly warped, both indicate that M65 is interacting with its large neighbours. The galaxy may also have a central bar, which may indicate tidal disruption, but it is difficult to confirm the existence of the bar because M65 is positioned at an oblique angle when seen from Earth.</p> <figure id="attachment_1036" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-1036" style="width: 600px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><a href="https://www.messier-objects.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/M65.jpg"><img decoding="async" class="wp-image-1036" src="https://www.messier-objects.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/M65.jpg" alt="messier 65" width="600" height="612" srcset="https://www.messier-objects.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/M65.jpg 1004w, https://www.messier-objects.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/M65-294x300.jpg 294w, https://www.messier-objects.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/M65-50x50.jpg 50w" sizes="(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px" /></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-1036" class="wp-caption-text">The 1st of March 1780 was a particularly productive night for Charles Messier. Combing the constellation of <a href="https://www.constellation-guide.com/constellation-list/leo-constellation/">Leo</a> for additions to his grand astronomical catalogue, he struck on not one, but two, new objects. One of those objects is seen here: Messier 65. “Nebula discovered in <a href="https://www.constellation-guide.com/constellation-list/leo-constellation/">Leo</a>: It is very faint and contains no star,” he jotted down in his notebook. But he was wrong — as we now know, Messier 65 is a spiral galaxy containing billions upon billions of stars. All Messier saw was a faint diffuse light, nothing like the fine detail here, so we can forgive his mistake. If he had had access to a telescope like Hubble, he could have spied these stunning, tightly wound purple spiral arms and dark dust lanes, encircling a bright centre crammed with stars.<br /> Almost exactly 233 years later in March of this year, one of the stars within Messier 65 went supernova (not seen in this image), rivalling the rest of the entire galaxy in brightness. This, the first Messier supernova of 2013, is now fading, and the serene beauty of M65 is returning. Image: ESA/Hubble & NASA</figcaption></figure> <p>Messier 65 contains a radio source, located about 2 arc minutes from the galaxy’s core. The source has not yet been identified and its nature is uncertain.</p> <p>A single supernova was detected in the galaxy in 2013. SN 2013am was discovered 15.3 arc seconds east and 103.2 arc seconds south of the galaxy’s core on March 21 of that year. At the time of discovery, the supernova had a visual magnitude of 15.6. By April 17, it faded to magnitude 16.3. SN 2013am was classified as a Type II supernova.</p> <figure id="attachment_1037" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-1037" style="width: 300px" class="wp-caption alignright"><a href="https://www.messier-objects.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/NGC-3623.jpg"><img decoding="async" class="size-medium wp-image-1037" src="https://www.messier-objects.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/NGC-3623-300x300.jpg" alt="messier 65,m65 hubble,messier 65 nasa" width="300" height="300" srcset="https://www.messier-objects.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/NGC-3623-300x300.jpg 300w, https://www.messier-objects.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/NGC-3623-150x150.jpg 150w, https://www.messier-objects.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/NGC-3623-50x50.jpg 50w, https://www.messier-objects.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/NGC-3623.jpg 1024w" sizes="(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px" /></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-1037" class="wp-caption-text">Messier 65. Image: NASA, ESA (Hubble Space Telescope)</figcaption></figure> <p>Messier 65 was discovered by Charles Messier, but William Herschel wrongly attributed the discovery to Messier’s friend Pierre Méchain in his work <em>A Cycle of Celestial Objects</em> and Kenneth Glyn Jones picked up the error in the 1960s. A number of sources now wrongly credit Méchain for the discovery even though Messier never acknowledged his colleague’s sighting.</p> <p>Messier discovered M65 and <a href="https://www.messier-objects.com/messier-66/">M66</a> on March 1, 1780. He described M65 as a “nebula discovered in <a href="https://www.constellation-guide.com/constellation-list/leo-constellation/">Leo</a>: It is very faint and contains no star.”</p> <p>William Herschel described M65 as “a very brilliant nebula extended in the meridian, about 12′ long. It has a bright nucleus, the light of which suddenly diminishes on its border, and two opposite very faint branches.”</p> <p>John Herschel catalogued M65 as h 854 and later added it to the General Catalogue as GC 2373, describing the object as “bright; very large; much extended in position angle about 165 degrees +/-; gradually brighter toward the middle where there is a bright nucleus.”</p> <p>Admiral William Henry Smyth noted that <a href="https://www.messier-objects.com/messier-66/">M66</a> was “preceded at about 73s by another of a similar shape, which is Messier’s No. 65, and both are in the field at the same time, under a moderate power, together with several stars. They were pointed out by Méchain to Messier in 1780, and they appeared faint and hazy to him.”</p> <p>Halton Arp included M65 and its neighbours in his <em>Atlas of Peculiar Galaxies</em> as object number 317, denoting the <a href="https://www.messier-objects.com/leo-triplet/">Leo Triplet</a>.</p> <figure id="attachment_1039" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-1039" style="width: 600px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><a href="https://www.messier-objects.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/Messier-65-Hubble.jpg"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="wp-image-1039" src="https://www.messier-objects.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/Messier-65-Hubble.jpg" alt="m65,messier 65,ngc 3623" width="600" height="560" srcset="https://www.messier-objects.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/Messier-65-Hubble.jpg 963w, https://www.messier-objects.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/Messier-65-Hubble-300x280.jpg 300w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px" /></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-1039" class="wp-caption-text">Messier 65. Based on observations made with the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, and obtained from the Hubble Legacy Archive, which is a collaboration between the Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI/NASA), the Space Telescope European Coordinating Facility (ST-ECF/ESA) and the Canadian Astronomy Data Centre (CADC/NRC/CSA).</figcaption></figure> <h3 style="text-align: center;">FACTS</h3> <table> <tbody> <tr> <td width="619"><strong>Object: Galaxy </strong></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="619"><strong>Type: Spiral </strong></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="619"><strong>Class: SAB(rs)a, LINER </strong></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="619"><strong>Designations: Messier 65, M65, NGC 3623, PGC 34612, UGC 6328, 2MASX J11185595+1305319, MCG+02-29-018, TC 160, Z 1116.3+1322, APG 317B </strong></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="619"><strong>Features: Member of the <a href="https://www.messier-objects.com/leo-triplet/">Leo Triplet</a> </strong></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="619"><strong>Constellation: <a href="https://www.constellation-guide.com/constellation-list/leo-constellation/">Leo</a> </strong></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="619"><strong>Right ascension: 11h 18m 55.9s </strong></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="619"><strong>Declination: +13°05’32” </strong></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="619"><strong>Distance: 35 million light years </strong></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="619"><strong>Number of stars: 200 billion </strong></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="619"><strong>Apparent magnitude: +10.25 </strong></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="619"><strong>Apparent dimensions: 8′.709 x 2′.454 </strong></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="619"><strong>Radius: 45,000 light years </strong></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="619"><strong>Redshift: 0.002692 </strong></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="619"><strong>Heliocentric radial velocity: 807 km/s </strong></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="619"><strong>Galactocentric velocity: 723 km/s </strong></td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <h3 style="text-align: center;">LOCATION</h3> <figure id="attachment_1020" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-1020" style="width: 600px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><a href="https://www.messier-objects.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/Messier-65-and-66-location.png"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="wp-image-1020" src="https://www.messier-objects.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/Messier-65-and-66-location.png" alt="leo triplet location,find m66 group,where is leo triplet" width="600" height="738" srcset="https://www.messier-objects.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/Messier-65-and-66-location.png 833w, https://www.messier-objects.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/Messier-65-and-66-location-244x300.png 244w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px" /></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-1020" class="wp-caption-text">Messier 65 location. Image: IAU and Sky & Telescope magazine (Roger Sinnott & Rick Fienberg)</figcaption></figure> </div><div class="nv-tags-list"><span>Tags:</span><a href=https://www.messier-objects.com/tag/arp-317/ title="Arp 317" class=arp-317 rel="tag">Arp 317</a><a href=https://www.messier-objects.com/tag/chertan/ title="Chertan" class=chertan rel="tag">Chertan</a><a href=https://www.messier-objects.com/tag/denebola/ title="Denebola" class=denebola rel="tag">Denebola</a><a href=https://www.messier-objects.com/tag/gc-2373/ title="GC 2373" class=gc-2373 rel="tag">GC 2373</a><a href=https://www.messier-objects.com/tag/h-854/ title="h 854" class=h-854 rel="tag">h 854</a><a href=https://www.messier-objects.com/tag/halton-arp/ title="Halton Arp" class=halton-arp rel="tag">Halton Arp</a><a href=https://www.messier-objects.com/tag/iota-leonis/ title="Iota Leonis" class=iota-leonis rel="tag">Iota Leonis</a><a href=https://www.messier-objects.com/tag/john-herschel/ title="John Herschel" class=john-herschel rel="tag">John Herschel</a><a href=https://www.messier-objects.com/tag/kenneth-glyn-jones/ title="Kenneth Glyn Jones" class=kenneth-glyn-jones rel="tag">Kenneth Glyn Jones</a><a href=https://www.messier-objects.com/tag/leo-constellation/ title="Leo Constellation" class=leo-constellation rel="tag">Leo Constellation</a><a href=https://www.messier-objects.com/tag/leo-triplet/ title="Leo Triplet" class=leo-triplet rel="tag">Leo Triplet</a><a href=https://www.messier-objects.com/tag/m65/ title="M65" class=m65 rel="tag">M65</a><a href=https://www.messier-objects.com/tag/m66/ title="M66" class=m66 rel="tag">M66</a><a href=https://www.messier-objects.com/tag/m66-group/ title="M66 Group" class=m66-group rel="tag">M66 Group</a><a href=https://www.messier-objects.com/tag/messier-65/ title="Messier 65" class=messier-65 rel="tag">Messier 65</a><a href=https://www.messier-objects.com/tag/messier-66/ title="Messier 66" class=messier-66 rel="tag">Messier 66</a><a href=https://www.messier-objects.com/tag/ngc-3623/ title="NGC 3623" class=ngc-3623 rel="tag">NGC 3623</a><a href=https://www.messier-objects.com/tag/ngc-3628/ title="NGC 3628" class=ngc-3628 rel="tag">NGC 3628</a><a href=https://www.messier-objects.com/tag/pierre-mechain/ title="Pierre Méchain" class=pierre-mechain rel="tag">Pierre Méchain</a><a href=https://www.messier-objects.com/tag/regulus/ title="Regulus" class=regulus rel="tag">Regulus</a><a href=https://www.messier-objects.com/tag/sn-2013am/ title="SN 2013am" class=sn-2013am rel="tag">SN 2013am</a><a href=https://www.messier-objects.com/tag/theta-leonis/ title="Theta Leonis" class=theta-leonis rel="tag">Theta Leonis</a><a href=https://www.messier-objects.com/tag/william-henry-smyth/ title="William Henry Smyth" class=william-henry-smyth rel="tag">William Henry Smyth</a><a href=https://www.messier-objects.com/tag/william-herschel/ title="William Herschel" class=william-herschel rel="tag">William Herschel</a> </div> <div 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