Arp 293 consists of two interacting galaxies, NGC 6285 and NGC 6286, in the constellation Draco.  The leftmost galaxy is NGC 6286, a magnitude 13.3 spiral of type SbP (peculiar) that measures 1.3’ x 1.2’.  Its interacting companion is NGC 6285, a spiral galaxy of type S0P and magnitude 13.6, measuring 1.2’ x 0.7’.   There is a faint tidal stream of stars connecting the two galaxies, which I was able to detect because of very dark skies (Bortle 2) and excellent transparency on the night when I shot the luminance back in 2016 with my QSI 660ws CCD camera and C11 EdgeHD at f/7.

Rick Johnson (R.I.P.) prepared a nice write-up about Arp 293, which you can find at the following link:

https://images.mantrapskies.com/catalog/ARP-GALAXIES/ARP293-NGC6285-NGC6286/index.htm

The razor-thin, edge-on galaxy near the bottom of the frame is UGC 10641, which is of type Sc or Sd, depending on who you ask.  It’s curious that I cannot find a PGC designation for this object in TheSkyX databases.

Near the upper right edge is UGC 10646 (PGC 59348), which is an even stranger looking galaxy than Arp 293, if you ask me.  Measuring 1.2’ x 0.5’, this galaxy is 15th magnitude and is listed as an elliptical.

This image was completed from luminance shot with the C11 EdgeHD in June of 2016 from a lovely dark sky site in western Texas, but I never got to shoot the RGB while I still lived there.  June was “evening thunderstorm month”, so I must have gotten skunked for clear skies until I moved away in January 2018.  I remembered the unfinished project this spring and decided to shoot some late-night RGB with the Esprit refractor, which happened to be outside imaging M101 in the evening hours in March.  One lucky clear night in May allowed me to reach a little over 6 hours of RGB data from the refractor to complete the LRGB image after 7 years of dormancy.  The rest of May and June were mostly ruined by forest fire smoke, and I completely forgot about this project until two days ago – so it’s a good thing I didn’t forget it about it for another seven years!