Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Ursa Major (UMa)  ·  Contains:  1WGA J1026.4+6746  ·  3HSPJ103838.1+675516  ·  Coddington's Nebula  ·  IC 2574  ·  MQ J101009.44+680409.5  ·  MQ J101218.30+683616.4  ·  MQ J101745.36+675323.6  ·  MQ J102201.83+690856.2  ·  MQ J102400.91+673459.9  ·  MQ J102409.81+674708.0  ·  MQ J102513.40+675118.9  ·  MQ J102522.52+673922.7  ·  MQ J102539.94+680417.2  ·  MQ J102651.43+673404.0  ·  MQ J102652.45+681619.2  ·  MQ J102712.72+674827.5  ·  MQ J102722.34+681844.3  ·  MQ J102736.08+681147.2  ·  MQ J102737.17+691627.8  ·  MQ J102803.06+682433.5  ·  MQ J102812.71+672203.4  ·  MQ J102819.57+682740.1  ·  MQ J102828.35+681109.4  ·  MQ J102841.73+683119.8  ·  MQ J102851.72+682117.7  ·  MQ J102932.83+681425.4  ·  MQ J103023.66+682726.9  ·  MQ J103041.19+681804.0  ·  MQ J103102.30+671923.9  ·  MQ J103117.47+682359.5  ·  And 316 more.
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Coddington's Nebula (IC2574) collaboration, Göran Nilsson
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Coddington's Nebula (IC2574) collaboration

Getting plate-solving status, please wait...
Coddington's Nebula (IC2574) collaboration, Göran Nilsson
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Coddington's Nebula (IC2574) collaboration

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Description

As you can see Coddington's nebula IC2574 is a galaxy! It is a dwarf spiral galaxy discovered by American astronomer Edwin Foster Coddington in 1898. At the time galaxies were not clearly distinguished from other lumps of nebulosity. It is an outlying member of the M81 group. For those that believe in dark matter this galaxy is made up of 90% of the stuff. Just like M81 and M82, this galaxy is surrounded by a lot of IFN (Integrated Flux Nebulosity), which is faintly shining dust energized by the collective radiation of the Milky Way. The RASA is great for disclosing IFN,

This is 9 hours of RASA8 (ASI2600MC) data (see https://www.astrobin.com/8z3xtt/C/ ) and to the galaxy I have added 19 hours of LHaRGB data collected by Wim van Berlo with his SW MN190 telescope and ASI294MM. You can read the details of this data on the image he is soon posting.

Please zoom in - there is quite a bit of detail to be seen in the galaxy.

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