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M 96 or NGC 3368 Galaxy. M96 is the brightest member of the Leo I group of galaxies, which is therefore also called the M96 group. Its distance was determined to be about 41 million light years (after corrections for the distance scale which are implied by the results of ESAs Hipparcos satellite) by Nial R. Tanvir with the Hubble Space Telescope by observing Cepheid variables. Interpolated with the HST result of 35.5 million light years for its neighbor M95, a value of 38 million light years can be adopted for the group. True-colour CCD image obtained with the Isaac Newton Telescope.
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