Wow, what a great observation Akarsh - I sure wish I could have joined you guys at Jimi's! I had a go at 4438 a couple weeks ago but my skies were pretty awful, but that just made me more determined to try again - hopefully at the GSSP next month.

My best observation, which doesn't reveal nearly as much as what you saw, was in June 2021 with my 28-inch scope:

"Super nice with lots of tidal tail action. The main galaxies(NGC 4435 and 4438) are bright and well-matched in size, core brightness, and stellar nuclei (I hope that's the plural of "nucleus"...) but 4438's tidal tails steal the show. Somewhat indistinct close to 4435, each tail has a distinctly brighter section, almost like two additional galaxies. Beautiful! 192x and 253x, 21.84SQM."

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