Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Canes Venatici (CVn)  ·  Contains:  NGC 4449
Getting plate-solving status, please wait...
NGC 4449 -The Box Galaxy - HaLRGB, Scott Badger
NGC 4449 -The Box Galaxy - HaLRGB
Powered byPixInsight

NGC 4449 -The Box Galaxy - HaLRGB

Getting plate-solving status, please wait...
NGC 4449 -The Box Galaxy - HaLRGB, Scott Badger
NGC 4449 -The Box Galaxy - HaLRGB
Powered byPixInsight

NGC 4449 -The Box Galaxy - HaLRGB

Equipment

Loading...

Acquisition details

Loading...

Description

Also the third(?) entry in the newly established WUG catalog – Wildly Unpopular Galaxies – this one gets a rating of 3, for just three AB pages of images….

Though it looks more like a box after my dog’s been at it, this irregular galaxy managed to survive its galactic run-in(s) with a large envelope, or halo, of neutral Hydrogen gas, so it’s also a star-burst galaxy, possibly triggered by interactions with nearby neighbors The envelope extends around the galaxy, but I held back on the stretch a bit to show the denser lobes on either side. There’s also a tidal stream remnant that, according to the age of the stars, suggests one of 4449’s assailants didn’t get away unscathed…..

Comments

Sky plot

Sky plot

Histogram

NGC 4449 -The Box Galaxy - HaLRGB, Scott Badger