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Old June 8th 15, 07:58 AM
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It did it again. The image load page shows they went in, I even looked at them in preview mode but when posted they aren't there. Trying again. Also I have to type Spiral in the heading or it uses lower-case of GC of UGC. Frustrating.

Rick


UGC 6955 aka Zwicky 2 is an IB(s)m: galaxy in southeastern Ursa Major about 54 million light-years distant by red shift and 57 million light-years by Tully Fisher estimates. A very good agreement. The de Vaucouleurs "Reference Catalogue of Bright Galaxies" says of it: "Very low surface brightness. Well resolved. Asymmetric. Foreshortened central part. Smooth bar. Dimensions: 5 arcmin x 1.5 arcmin (Lick 36-inch plate)." I agree with the description but for its size. I trace it to 6 by 1.9 minutes on my FITS luminance image. Using that size and the red shift distance I get a diameter of 94,000 light-years. Rather large for an irregular galaxy, even one with a hint of spiral structure but no defined core. Still it has a center of old stars with an outer disk of younger blue stars as you'd expect of a spiral. It seems to have some characteristics of both spirals and irregular galaxies. Being nearby and resolvable (not by me) I'd expected to find some images of it but other than survey images I found none. Since the above note says it was taken with the 36" Lick refractor I looked but couldn't find it on the net anyplace.

I found a couple other objects of interest in the field. To the west is ASK 517319.0 and a possible companion SDSS J115747.00+380724.3 on the arm. The apparently single arm continues on to end at a star. I checked the POSS and SDSS survey images and it is a star not a third galaxy so that it is at the end of the arm is coincidence of perspective and not real. Without red shift info on the SDSS galaxy I can't tell if it is a true companion or not. I suspect it is and the cause of the odd arm but found absolutely nothing on it of use.

The other odd object is below UGC 6955 and looks like a double headed comet. The northern and fainter galaxy is MAPS-NGP O_266_0142329. It is slightly red both as to the core and the "tail" to the east. The lower galaxy is only listed at NED as an Ultraviolet source, not a galaxy with a rather vague position that points to the middle of its tail directly east of the head. It is listed as GALEXASC J115833.05+375752.4 and is very blue as you might expect of an ultraviolet source. The SDSS picked up the northern galaxy but not the Uv Source. I've found this survey to miss blue galaxies so I suppose this isn't too surprising. The odd dual comet tails is hard to explain as due to an interaction which usually sprays stars every which way. I'd love to find an explanation of what is going on here or even if the two are related. But I came up totally skunked. A fascinating mystery.

Everything else in the image is rather ordinary. Again there are a lot of galaxies without red shift data. Galaxy clusters all had only photographic red shift information though sometimes the Bright Cluster Galaxy had a spectroscopic red shift that slightly disagreed with the photographic one for the cluster itself. When that happened both were listed. Most of the time the cluster and galaxy were only identified by their coordinates which were the same and both had the same photographic red shift. When this happened I listed them as GC/C with a p after the red shift for photographic. If the galaxy had a catalog entry other than coordinates that is shown after the detail on the cluster it anchors along with its spectroscopic red shift which is likely more accurate than the photographic one.

The field contained over two dozen quasar candidates and or rejected quasar candidates. NED is listing all a stars but mentioning they are quasar candidates due to photographic red shift determinations. Since the rejected ones still show red shifts impossible for stars yet are stars I didn't bother to try and annotated the candidates NED seems to think aren't likely to prove to be quasars. On the other hand the quasars shown are listed by NED as quasars with spectroscopic red shifts to back this up but they note they too are still listed as quasar candidates. Since NED has determined they will likely prove to be the real thing that is how I listed them on the annotated image.

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

Rick
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Old June 8th 15, 09:39 PM posted to alt.binaries.pictures.astro
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Rick, you're last couple of postings did not have an image
attached... at least out here in usenet land.

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Their software seems suddenly buggy. It's taken me two tries to get them to appear at http://www.spacebanter.com/forumdisplay.php?f=25

Seems to depend on whose USENET you subscribe too. Some tell me they see them some don't, some see them sometimes. Very confusing.

Rick

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Rick, you're last couple of postings did not have an image
attached... at least out here in usenet land.

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Their software seems suddenly buggy. It's taken me two tries to get
them to appear at http://www.spacebanter.com/forumdisplay.php?f=25

Seems to depend on whose USENET you subscribe too. Some tell me they
see them some don't, some see them sometimes. Very confusing.

Rick


Wow. You're reply came through on usenet. That hasn't happened
before.

I wonder who they peer with for their usenet. Who they use and
who THEY peer with can make a big difference in propagation.
Someone somewhere may be stripping out the file attachments.

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