FGC 2350/UGC 11838 A Very Flat Galaxy

FGC 2350 is a flat galaxy in western Pegasus between the horses front feet almost into Cygnus. Red shift puts it 145 million light-years distant while the median value of 12 Tully-Fisher measurements say 160 million light years. That makes it 80,000 to 89,000 light-years in size. NED classifies it as Sd. It is also known as UGC 11838 and is in two other flat galaxy catalogs. It's also in a very lonely place in the sky. NED lists only 2 other galaxies in my field, neither with even a magnitude. No asteroids showed up either. I'd hoped to find some info on this flat galaxy but other than catalog listings there's nothing on it. I didn't even record how I came to put it on my to-do list.

14" LX200R @ f/10, L=4x10' RGB=2x10', STL-11000XM, Paramount ME

Rick

Rick,

it just occured to me that there is only one letter between "flat" and "fat"
:-)
But close inspection of your image showed me that the version with an "L" is
appropriate here.
Maybe it's flatness is also the reason that it did not get an NGC number, it
probably was too small to notice.

Stefan


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FGC 2350 is a flat galaxy in western Pegasus between the horses front
feet almost into Cygnus. Red shift puts it 145 million light-years
distant while the median value of 12 Tully-Fisher measurements say 160
million light years. That makes it 80,000 to 89,000 light-years in
size. NED classifies it as Sd. It is also known as UGC 11838 and is in
two other flat galaxy catalogs. It's also in a very lonely place in the
sky. NED lists only 2 other galaxies in my field, neither with even a
magnitude. No asteroids showed up either. I'd hoped to find some info
on this flat galaxy but other than catalog listings there's nothing on
it. I didn't even record how I came to put it on my to-do list.

14" LX200R @ f/10, L=4x10' RGB=2x10', STL-11000XM, Paramount ME

Rick


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