NGC 1060 Galaxy Group - LGG 72 (Gary Imm)

Celestial hemisphere: Northern · Constellation: Triangulum (Tri) · Contains: NGC 1057 · NGC 1060 · NGC 1061 · NGC 1062 · NGC 1066 · NGC 1067

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NGC 1060 Galaxy Group - LGG 72

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NGC 1060 Galaxy Group - LGG 72

This object is a rarely imaged galaxy group located 250 million light years away in the constellation of Triangulum at a declination of +32 degrees. The group of about 15 galaxies spans 35 arc-minutes in our apparent view, which corresponds to a true width of 2.5 million light years.

This group of galaxies is the 72nd entry in the Lyon Groups of Galaxies (LGG) catalog by Garcia (1993). It is sometimes called the NGC 1060 galaxy group, named for the largest galaxy in the center of the image.

I love this field of view, which I stumbled upon while planning to image NGC 1060 by itself. There is so much going on here that I keep finding new things every time I study the image. Of all of my images, this one has the most interesting detail "hidden" in the full resolution view.

My favorite parts are the wondrous grand spiral galaxies on the left (NGC 1067) and right (UGC 2156) sides, the long distorted edge-on galaxy at upper left (UGC 02201), the irregular galaxy at center left (PGC 010337) which has a distinctively unusual core, and most interesting of all, the amazing tiny pair of merging galaxies (VZw 74, similar to the Antennae galaxies) with a visible dual core, at the bottom center. The only other description of this object that I could find described it as a distorted elliptical, but it sure looks like 2 merged spirals to me. This is some galactic cirrus throughout the background which makes for an uneven backdrop to this wonderful group.

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RA (center)	02h43m11s.175
RA (top/left)	02h44m23s.872
RA (top/right)	02h41m46s.866
RA (bottom/right)	02h41m58s.823
RA (bottom/left)	02h44m35s.209

Dec (center)	+32°23′40″.19
Dec (top/left)	+32°36′24″.86
Dec (top/right)	+32°32′40″.43
Dec (bottom/right)	+32°10′53″.11
Dec (bottom/left)	+32°14′36″.47

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