NGC 2274 Galaxy Group (Gary Imm)

Celestial hemisphere: Northern · Constellation: Gemini (Gem) · Contains: NGC 2274 · NGC 2275 · PGC 19586 · PGC 19632 · PGC 2033851 · PGC 2035005 · PGC 2035075

NGC 2274 Galaxy Group

This image captures a number of interesting galaxies located in the constellation of Gemini at a declination of +34 degrees.

The brightest galaxy is NGC 2274, at the center of the image. It is listed as an elliptical galaxy but it looks more like a lenticular to me, with a small bright nuclear ring around the core.. The magnitude 13 galaxy is located about 225 million light years away and 1.7 arc-minutes in diameter. This corresponds to a Milky Way like diameter of 120,000 light years.

Just above NGC 2274 is the fascinating disturbed magnitude 14 spiral galaxy NGC 2275. It is at about the same distance away as NGC 2274. I have never seen a galaxy disk quite like this one. It looks to me that the 2 galaxies are interacting.

Two other smaller, but no less interesting, galaxies are seen at left and right. At left is the magnitude 16 edge-on spiral UGC 3544 located 340 million light years away and 140,000 light years in diameter. At right is the magnitude 15 barred ring galaxy UGC 3537 located 240 million light years away. This last galaxy, 70,000 light years in diameter, has serious disturbance happening in the outer disk at 5 o’clock.

Note the interesting similarity in the shape, texture, and thickness of the arms at 12 o'clock in both NGC 2274 and UGC 3537. I rarely see galaxy arms as "thick" and distinct as these two.

Many other small background galaxies are present in the image.

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RA (center)	06h47m25s.196
RA (top/left)	06h48m21s.267
RA (top/right)	06h46m29s.225
RA (bottom/right)	06h46m29s.505
RA (bottom/left)	06h48m21s.110

Dec (center)	+33°33′59″.99
Dec (top/left)	+33°41′53″.90
Dec (top/right)	+33°41′54″.52
Dec (bottom/right)	+33°26′10″.70
Dec (bottom/left)	+33°26′03″.70

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