Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Draco (Dra)  ·  Contains:  NGC 4236
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NGC 4236 in Draco, Jim Thommes
NGC 4236 in Draco
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NGC 4236 in Draco, Jim Thommes
NGC 4236 in Draco
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NGC 4236 is a cool blue galaxy in the constellation of Draco. It visually the largest galaxy in Draco and doesn't seem to get much attention by astro imagers. This field seems to be lightly studied - there are numerous visually apparent background galaxies that are only catalogued in UV and IR surveys (as UV and IR sources). NGC 4236 is a barred spiral with a classification of SB(s)dm. It is also known as UGC 7306, PGC 39346, and MGC+12-12-004. NGC 4236 is about 9 million light years distant. The full size image has an image scale of 0.76 arcsec/pixel. Some of the brighter stars and background galaxies are identified in the annotated image.

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