NGC 6339 (LRGB) (Ruediger)

Celestial hemisphere: Northern · Constellation: Hercules (Her) · Contains: NGC 6339 · PGC 2171108 · PGC 2171217 · PGC 60007

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NGC 6339 (LRGB)

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NGC 6339 (LRGB)

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again one of the tiny objects: NGC 6339. This is a galaxy of the type SBd in a distance of 100 Mly. Its diameter is 2.9' x 1.7'. Actually it has a diameter of 84,000 ly.
It contains a lot of neutral hydrogen, which was proven by radio astronomers. Interesting here: in the radio image the galaxy is twice the size as visual. This is an indicator, that this galaxy was not interacting with other objects since it formed.

On AB I have found less than a dozen images. Of course (!) @Gary Imm has imaged it

. Lately inspired by @GalacticRAVE I decided to go for this object too. The data was collected in seven nights (June till August)
Fun Fact: showing the draft image to my friend @Björn his dry comment was simply: "Well, not every galaxy is a Ms. Universe"

Ok - got it!

Never the less, an interesting and very rare galaxy.

Please enjoy!
Rüdiger

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Astrometry.net job	8336657
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PixInsight stage	TASK_LOG

RA (center)	17h17m08s.174
RA (top/left)	17h16m19s.628
RA (top/right)	17h17m56s.725
RA (bottom/right)	17h17m56s.921
RA (bottom/left)	17h16m19s.474

Dec (center)	+40°50′57″.26
Dec (top/left)	+40°44′24″.70
Dec (top/right)	+40°44′24″.36
Dec (bottom/right)	+40°57′29″.10
Dec (bottom/left)	+40°57′29″.71

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