NGC6340 - Interesting Lenticular (Jason Guenzel)

Celestial hemisphere: Northern · Constellation: Draco (Dra) · Contains: IC 1251 · IC 1254 · NGC 6340

NGC6340 - Interesting Lenticular, Jason Guenzel

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NGC6340 - Interesting Lenticular

I captured this image a month or so ago and only just now took a look through the data. I found this one very interesting to process. It is a strange galaxy but only 3 arcminutes wide from our vantage point. NGC6340 is classified as an S0 Lenticular galaxy which means that it sits squarely on the fork of the galactic family tree. Research shows that it is likely a merger of an old elliptical with new material to create a primitive spiral disk. It has some very faint wispy contrast in the dust lanes which I tried to display.

There are 3 others in this frame that share a very similar redshift. These are the two larger IC1254 (up and left in this view) and IC1251 (up from NGC6340) and PGC59705 (just a bit right of NGC6340). This means these are all likely close to each other and could perhaps be interacting. Supporting that argument, IC1254 has some extended plumage and IC1251 looks a bit twisted.

Sprinkled in the background are almost 800 other galaxies down to magnitude 21. Almost all of them I can pick out of the final image.

Good stuff, Enjoy!

Rev A - Original

Rev B - Annotation animation. GIF compression (256 shades) is a bummer here and hides a few faint ones.

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