NGC 2460 (Gary Imm)

Celestial hemisphere: Northern · Constellation: Camelopardalis (Cam) · Contains: IC 2209 · NGC 2460

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NGC 2460

This object is a pair of galaxies located 115 million light years away in the constellation of Camelopardalis at a declination of +60 degrees. NGC 2460 is on the left, IC 2209 on the right.

NGC 2460 is a 11.7 magnitude spiral galaxy that is 4.5 arc-minutes wide in our apparent view, which corresponds to a diameter of about 140,000 light years in diameter. The outer regions of this galaxy are very faint.

The two galaxies are separated by only 150,000 light years, so I would expect both galaxies to be experiencing gravitational influence from each other. I don't see much disturbance in NGC 2460, but IC 2209 is a different story. It looks like a distorted spiral galaxy that is wrapped in a wide star stream band, almost like a polar ring galaxy.

An interesting smudge of a galaxy, LEDA 213434, is seen above and left of NGC 2460, but I could not find any distance information on this object to know if it is close enough to be a companion. It seems that a faint star stream may connect this galaxy with NGC 2460, but then again it could be my imagination.

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RA (center)	07h56m33s.819
RA (top/left)	07h57m25s.499
RA (top/right)	07h54m36s.994
RA (bottom/right)	07h55m42s.883
RA (bottom/left)	07h58m30s.590

Dec (center)	+60°19′41″.78
Dec (top/left)	+60°32′40″.87
Dec (top/right)	+60°19′55″.32
Dec (bottom/right)	+60°06′41″.67
Dec (bottom/left)	+60°19′21″.73

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