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3 Attachment(s) 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...
March 27th 13 08:09 PM
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2 Attachment(s) 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...
March 27th 13 08:07 PM
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3 Attachment(s) 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...
March 27th 13 08:04 PM
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3 Attachment(s) 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...
March 27th 13 08:03 PM
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2 Attachment(s) 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...
March 27th 13 08:01 PM
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2 Attachment(s) ASTRO: Poor attempt at Minkowski's Butterfly -- M2-9 by Rick Johnson[_2_]
Minkowski's Butterfly, M2-9, is an interesting bipolar planetary nebula whose form is the result of two tubular jets created by interaction with its...
March 27th 13 07:59 PM
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4 Attachment(s) 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...
March 27th 13 07:58 PM
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3 Attachment(s) ASTRO: M85 A shell galaxy with globulars noted by Rick Johnson[_2_]
M85 is one of the large elliptical like galaxies in the Virgo cluster. It is near the northern edge of the cluster in Coma Berenices. Being that the cluster...
March 27th 13 07:53 PM
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3 Attachment(s) 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...
March 27th 13 07:51 PM
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2 Attachment(s) ASTRO: NGC 1194 and many other galaxies with plumes by Rick Johnson[_2_]
IC 1194 is a member of the Hercules Galaxy Cluster on its eastern edge. I missed picking it up when I imaged the heart of the cluster due to my FOV being...
March 26th 13 06:44 AM
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2 Attachment(s) 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. ...
March 24th 13 07:52 AM
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1 Attachment(s) Anybody know what this is? by Flukephotog
Took this pic by accident and I'm wondering what it is that I...
March 19th 13 10:13 PM
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4 Attachment(s) 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...
March 8th 13 07:00 PM
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3 Attachment(s) 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...
March 6th 13 07:55 AM
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3 Attachment(s) 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...
March 1st 13 08:33 AM
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3 Attachment(s) 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...
February 27th 13 07:59 AM
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3 Attachment(s) ASTRO: UGC 8091 and NGC 4866 A study in contrast by Rick Johnson[_2_]
UGC 08091 is a dwarf irregular galaxy likely part of our local extended group of galaxies. Distance estimates ranged from 3 million to 7 million light-years...
February 25th 13 07:22 AM
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3 Attachment(s) 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...
February 23rd 13 08:28 AM
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6 Attachment(s) 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...
February 23rd 13 08:14 AM
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4 Attachment(s) 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. ...
February 20th 13 07:45 AM
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