NGC 691 Group in Aries (Michael Feigenbaum)

Celestial hemisphere: Northern · Constellation: Aries (Ari) · Contains: IC 167 · IC 1730 · MQ J014901.10+215834.1 · MQ J014904.06+214343.2 · MQ J014922.77+213944.5 · MQ J014924.06+220249.9 · MQ J015020.69+215040.7 · NGC 678 · NGC 680 · NGC 691 · NGC 694 · PGC 1654894 · PGC 1664104 · SDSS J014859.32+215104.3 · SDSS J014930.79+220304.9 · SDSS J014932.53+215835.8 · SDSS J014941.98+213929.2 · SDSS J015010.93+215745.1 · SDSS J015015.22+220215.8 · SDSS J015016.05+215904.8 · SDSS J015024.18+215835.9 · SDSS J015036.43+214735.7 · SDSS J015039.09+214411.1 · SDSS J015055.16+214650.9 · SDSS J015056.09+220617.8 · SDSS J015108.30+214823.4 · SDSS J015114.20+214419.7 · SDSS J015119.95+215851.6 · WISEA J014906.47+214523.4 · WISEA J014923.02+214501.6 · And 1 more.

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Here we have a try at the NGC291 Group in Aries. This grouping is interesting to me because it features a variety of different types of galaxies with NGC691 being a nearly face-on spiral, NGC678 is probably an edge on barred spiral, NGC680 is an elliptical galaxy and IC167 (aka Arp 31) is a rather open barred spiral. Not sure if these are interacting and I do believe that IC167 is quite a bit closer to us than the other three.

I did a decent amount of L integration and finished off with some RGB for color. I would have like to do more integration on this to see if I could pick up more faint stuff and maybe signs of interaction but it was not to be. Time under the stars has not been all that easy lately...

Processing was pretty straight forward, I just did not want to overdo noise reduction and saturation with the idea of trying to show this in a more natural way.

I hope you like this one and as always, comments and criticism always welcome!

CS and Happy Holidays!

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RA (center)	01h50m12s.750
RA (top/left)	01h51m16s.436
RA (top/right)	01h48m48s.521
RA (bottom/right)	01h49m07s.959
RA (bottom/left)	01h51m35s.428

Dec (center)	+21°53′06″.39
Dec (top/left)	+22°08′41″.17
Dec (top/right)	+22°02′35″.27
Dec (bottom/right)	+21°37′29″.78
Dec (bottom/left)	+21°43′35″.13

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