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ASTRO: FGC 1751 Flatter than flat? by
Rick Johnson[_2_]
FGC 1751/UGC 9242 is a somewhat commonly imaged super flat galaxy. As
one of my goals is to image the better FGC entries (obviously not all of
them by a...
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ASTRO: NGC 6012 by
Rick Johnson[_2_]
NGC 6012 is a very weird looking barred spiral in Serpens Caput about 90
million light-years distant. The NGC project classifies it as SBa while
NED using a...
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ASTRO: NGC 4775 A Slightly Sloshed Galaxy by
Rick Johnson[_2_]
NGC 4775 is a small spiral with an off center core and distorted spiral
arms. It is located in Virgo (right in the geostationary satellite belt
which...
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807 |
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ASTRO: NGC 5905 and NGC 5908 by
Rick Johnson[_2_]
NGC 5905 and 5908 are a pair of spiral galaxies in Draco less than a
degree north of Bootes. They are a bit under 160 million light-years
away. Most...
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NGC 6340 and a lot more by
Rick Johnson[_2_]
NGC 6340 is a rather odd face on SA(s)0/a galaxy in Draco I'd wanted to
image but was hidden behind my Polaris trees. Redshift puts it about 53
million...
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833 |
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ASTRO: IC 4630 by
Rick Johnson[_2_]
IC 4630 was suggested to me by Sakib Rasool. It is a spiral starburst
galaxy which is likely the result of a merger in progress. It is a
mostly white...
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658 |
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ASTRO: NGC 4102 by
Rick Johnson[_2_]
NGC 4102 is a rather strange spiral galaxy in Ursa Major southwest of
the bowl of the Big Dipper, not far from the far more well known M109.
It is about 50...
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ASTRO: NGC 6811 by
Rick Johnson[_2_]
NGC 6811 is an open cluster in Cygnus. WEBDA puts its distance as 1,215
parsecs (~ 4,000 light-years) and estimates its age as about 630 million
years. ...
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759 |
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ASTRO: NGC 5860 Another smash up image by
Rick Johnson[_2_]
NGC 5860 as a pair (one source says trio) of colliding galaxies in
Bootes about 250 million light-years from us. I've labeled the southern
galaxy as NGC...
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ASTRO: NGC 4922 Another smashing image by
Rick Johnson[_2_]
NGC 4922 is a pair of colliding galaxies on the northern edge of the
Coma Galaxy Cluster that Arp somehow missed including in his atlas.
Some papers see...
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ASTRO: NGC 5403 and MCG +06-31-042 by
Rick Johnson[_2_]
NGC 5403 and its companion MCG +06-31-042 are a pair of galaxies about
130 million light years distant in the constellation of Canes Venatici.
MCG...
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ASTRO: NGC 4298 and 4302 by
Rick Johnson[_2_]
NGC 4298 and 4302 are a commonly imaged pair of galaxies in the Virgo
galaxy cluster about 60 million light-years away. Redshift puts them a
bit further...
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492 |
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600 |
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ASTRO: NGC 5777 by
Rick Johnson[_2_]
NGC 5777 and UGC 09570 are a pair of galaxies in Draco about 100 million
light-years away. NED classes NGC 5777 as Sbc and as having a narrow
line AGN at...
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ASTRO: NGC 3521 by
Rick Johnson[_2_]
NGC 3521 is a very disturbed flocculant spiral galaxy in Leo about 35
million light-years distant. Redshift can be rather misleading giving a
distance of 54...
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1,105 |
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NGC 5364 by
Rick Johnson[_2_]
NGC 5360, 5363 and 5367 are a trio of non interacting galaxies in Virgo
and members of the famous Virgo Galaxy Cluster about 60 million
light-years from us. ...
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