NCG6140 seldom imaged (John Favalessa)

Celestial hemisphere: Northern · Constellation: Draco (Dra) · Contains: NGC 6140 · PGC 2674858 · PGC 2675463 · PGC 2675521 · PGC 2677281 · PGC 2677404 · PGC 2678210 · PGC 2678741 · PGC 2679177 · PGC 2679413 · PGC 2679505 · PGC 2679634 · PGC 2679689 · PGC 3086509 · PGC 57949

NCG6140 seldom imaged

Hard to believe only 19 images of this messed up beauty on Astrobin...one of which is from @Gary Imm of course! 😀 NGC6140 is small and 45MLYs away. This image with a 9.25HD with focal length of 1645mm. Not bad from a B7 backyard right! (It amazes me that we do this!)

I went to the authoritative source for more on this galaxy (Gary 😀 of course, from his image): "This object is a small face-on barred spiral galaxy located 45 million light years away in the constellation of Draco at a declination of +65 degrees. This galaxy spans 4 arc-minutes in our apparent view, which corresponds to an actual diameter of 50,000 light years.
The inner region of this galaxy is messed up. An off center bar is itself a bit curved and distorted, so it appears that this galaxy may have had a close encounter with another unseen galaxy in the past. Numerous star clusters and a few faint HII regions are seen. The outer region consists of two primary arms, but they also have been distorted somewhat."

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Status	Advanced success
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Astrometry.net job	8171775
PixInsight job	9OVUGMKTF8HG4SDAFWX9KHA0OAYOAVXR
PixInsight queue size	n/a
PixInsight stage	TASK_LOG

RA (center)	16h20m56s.457
RA (top/left)	16h18m28s.962
RA (top/right)	16h18m49s.923
RA (bottom/right)	16h23m20s.510
RA (bottom/left)	16h23m06s.542

Dec (center)	+65°23′21″.14
Dec (top/left)	+65°44′03″.56
Dec (top/right)	+65°01′19″.36
Dec (bottom/right)	+65°02′31″.21
Dec (bottom/left)	+65°45′16″.40

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