Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Ursa Major (UMa)  ·  Contains:  Coddington's Nebula  ·  IC 2574
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Coddington's Nebula - IC 2574, Jim Thommes
Coddington's Nebula - IC 2574
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Coddington's Nebula - IC 2574

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Coddington's Nebula - IC 2574, Jim Thommes
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Coddington's Nebula - IC 2574

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The central galaxy in this image is IC 2574 and is also known by it's common name - Coddington's Nebula. It is a nearby Dwarf Galaxy; part of the M81 galaxy group and is classified classified as SAB(s)m. There are several background galaxies although they all seem lightly studied with little detail - none have distance estimates. Also in this image is the distant Abell Galaxy Cluster (ACO 1005). It has a distance estimated by redshift of 1.562 billion light years. As such, the galaxy members are dim and not seen easily in this image. IC 2574 has a distance estimate of 10 to 11 million light years - this range is the variation from the slightly different redshift estimate and the redshift independent estimate. These galaxies and some of the brighter stars are identified in the annotated image. Horizontal FOV is approximately 38 arc minutes (0.81 arcsec/pix image scale on the full size image).

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