NGC 6786 and UGC 11415 (Gary Imm)

Celestial hemisphere: Northern · Constellation: Draco (Dra) · Contains: NGC 6786 · PGC 214717 · PGC 62864 · PGC 62867

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NGC 6786 and UGC 11415

This image captures a pair of interacting spiral galaxies located 350 million light years away in the constellation of Draco at a declination of +73 degrees. NGC 6786 is the bottom galaxy. Each galaxy spans about 1 arc-minute in our apparent view, which corresponds to an actual diameter of 90,000 light years.

This is a small but interesting pair of objects – each galaxy appears to have distorted spiral arms, and each galaxy is hiding behind a foreground Milky Way star. UGC 11415 is hiding behind a large blue star, while NGC 6786 is hiding behind a small yellow star. I don't see a star stream bridging these 2 galaxies - perhaps more integration would reveal it.

There is also an interesting faint galaxy towards the bottom of the image. I could not find a distance estimate for it but it looks to be much further away.

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RA (center)	19h10m59s.999
RA (top/left)	19h12m42s.507
RA (top/right)	19h09m15s.177
RA (bottom/right)	19h09m17s.745
RA (bottom/left)	19h12m42s.974

Dec (center)	+73°24′58″.36
Dec (top/left)	+73°30′15″.70
Dec (top/right)	+73°30′06″.68
Dec (bottom/right)	+73°19′37″.91
Dec (bottom/left)	+73°19′46″.85

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