NGC 5689 Galaxy Group (Gary Imm)

Celestial hemisphere: Northern · Constellation: Boötes (Boo) · Contains: NGC 5682 · NGC 5683 · NGC 5689 · NGC 5693

NGC 5689 Galaxy Group

These photogenic galaxies are located in the constellation of Bootes at a declination of +49 degrees. Like many visually close galaxies in our heavens, these 4 are locate at different distances from each other and are simply superimposed from our view perspective.

My favorite at top center is NGC 5689, a large magnitude 12.5 edge-on spiral galaxy, located 120 million light years away. It spans 4 arc-minutes in our apparent view. This corresponds to a diameter of 140,000 light years. I love the dual mid-line dust bands, the bright glowing core, and the warped disk.

At lower left is NGC 5693, a face-on barred spiral galaxy with a single strong arm. Note the blue star formation occurring in this arm. Something is disturbing this galaxy. It is close to NGC 5689, at 125 million light years away, but I do not sense that they are interacting.

At right are 2 beautiful and colorful grand design spiral galaxies. The yellow barred face-on galaxy (NGC 5683) is 0.5 billion light years away. The blue warped near edge-on galaxy (NGC 5682) is much closer at 105 million light years away.

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RA (center)	14h35m32s.220
RA (top/left)	14h36m42s.145
RA (top/right)	14h34m20s.715
RA (bottom/right)	14h34m22s.199
RA (bottom/left)	14h36m42s.995

Dec (center)	+48°39′27″.84
Dec (top/left)	+48°47′27″.51
Dec (top/right)	+48°47′08″.77
Dec (bottom/right)	+48°31′25″.45
Dec (bottom/left)	+48°31′43″.72

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