Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Camelopardalis (Cam)  ·  Contains:  NGC 2146
Getting plate-solving status, please wait...
NGC 2146, Bob Rucker
Powered byPixInsight

NGC 2146

Getting plate-solving status, please wait...
NGC 2146, Bob Rucker
Powered byPixInsight

NGC 2146

Equipment

Loading...

Acquisition details

Loading...

Description

I was surprised to have 2 evenings of relatively clear skies before the storm starts moving into Arizona this week. I still had my EdgeHD 8 on the mount so I ended up landing on NGC 2146. This is a barred spiral galaxy in the constellation Camelopardalis. The galaxy was discovered in 1876 by Friedrich August Theodor Winnecke.

The galaxy's most conspicuous feature is the dusty lanes of a spiral arm lying across the core of the galaxy as seen from Earth, the arm having been bent 45 degrees by a close encounter with a smaller galaxy possibly NGC 2146a about 0.8 billion years ago.

Comments

Revisions

  • NGC 2146, Bob Rucker
    Original
  • Final
    NGC 2146, Bob Rucker
    B

B

Description: Some minor tweaks.

Uploaded: ...

Sky plot

Sky plot

Histogram

NGC 2146, Bob Rucker