NGC 6339 (Gary Imm)

Celestial hemisphere: Northern · Constellation: Hercules (Her) · Contains: NGC 6339 · NGC 6343

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NGC 6339

This object is a faint small barred spiral galaxy located 100 million light years away in the constellation of Hercules. Its apparent diameter to us of 3 arc-minutes corresponds to a span of 85,000 light years. This galaxy is type SBcd, which is unusual. It has a bright, long central bar but little structure in the galaxy arms.

The rarely imaged galaxy does not show any visible signs of deformation. I find the blue tint of the top portion of the bar to be interesting, which I assume is a region of strong star formation.

The edge-on spiral galaxy to the lower left (PGC 60007) as well as the bright elliptical galaxy to the left (NGC 6343) are both much larger galaxies but are about 4 times further away from us than NGC 6339.

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RA (center)	17h17m06s.905
RA (top/left)	17h16m29s.738
RA (top/right)	17h15m39s.506
RA (bottom/right)	17h17m43s.710
RA (bottom/left)	17h18m34s.822

Dec (center)	+40°50′38″.26
Dec (top/left)	+41°09′21″.34
Dec (top/right)	+40°39′25″.22
Dec (bottom/right)	+40°31′54″.00
Dec (bottom/left)	+41°01′47″.60

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