This
Astrobin Debut Object is a pair of faint objects both located 90 million light years away in the constellation of Pisces at a declination of +5 degrees. In his
Arp catalog, Dr. Arp classified this object into the category of Double Galaxies.
The lower right object is UGC 1102. This magnitude 14 object spans about 1.3 arc-minutes in our apparent view and has a diameter of 35,000 light years. According to SIMBAD, it consists of 2 galaxies – one primarily in the lower half, and one in the upper half. The two halves do look different to me – the lower half has bright cyan blue clusters, while the upper half is absent of clusters and is more of purple-bluish hue – but whether this is actually two galaxies is tough to say.
The upper left object is UGC 1105. This magnitude 17 object spans about 0.8 arc-minutes in our apparent view and has a diameter of 20,000 light years.
Although these 2 objects appear to be at the same distance from, they do not seem to be interacting.
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