2523sigdbeANOTATED (astroeyes)

2523sigdbeANOTATED

Another little Arp gem. This is Arp 9, or ngc 2523 in Camelopardus. Taken in May this is a delightful field and shows several interesting galaxies and other features.

The main player is ngc 2523, the large spiral centre left in the field. It is in Arp's 'split arm' grouping and the atlas tells us that the 'bifurcated arm does not start at the end of the bar'. NGC 2523 is magnitude 12.0. To the west of ngc 2523 is the bright edge-on spiral UGC 4259, ngc 2523b as it also known, at magnitude 14.8. To the East is the rather odd looking irregular dwarf UGC 4279 at mag. 16.1, which also contains a possible 18th mag. quasar candidate.

There is one other object that I am unable to identify. The rather faint smudge just below the bright star North of UGC 4259 is not on any of my charts, any one got anything on it?

30 X 3 min exposures integrated to produce this image. Telescope 10" reflector.

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