NGC 2357 (Gary Imm)

Celestial hemisphere: Northern · Constellation: Gemini (Gem) · Contains: NGC 2357

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NGC 2357

This object is a rarely imaged edge-on galaxy located 100 million light years away in the constellation of Gemini at a declination of +23 degrees. This magnitude 14 galaxy spans 4.5 arc-minutes in our apparent view, which corresponds to a diameter of 130,000 light years.

Not much has been written about this galaxy. I love the classic yellow core / blue arms look of it. The galaxy disk appears a bit warped, as if disturbed slightly by a nearby companion. Numerous small galaxies are visible in the image, but the most likely candidate in my opinion is the irregular-looking blue galaxy (LEDA 213380 ) to the upper right. Alas, I could find no distance information for this small galaxy to confirm it as a candidate.

It is hard to see in this image, but in the Lum master I can see faint signal which is reaching up from the right side of the core area. I am used to seeing slight core bulges, but this looked slightly different to me. You can see it a bit better on the inverted monochrome Astrobin view.

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ZWO ASI1600MM/QHY163M
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Edge-on Galaxies
Superthin Galaxies
Warped Disk Galaxy Shape

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Astrometry.net job	3200663
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PixInsight stage	TASK_LOG

RA (center)	07h17m40s.644
RA (top/left)	07h17m03s.841
RA (top/right)	07h17m55s.961
RA (bottom/right)	07h18m17s.543
RA (bottom/left)	07h17m25s.218

Dec (center)	+23°21′23″.80
Dec (top/left)	+23°20′26″.95
Dec (top/right)	+23°13′38″.73
Dec (bottom/right)	+23°22′19″.90
Dec (bottom/left)	+23°29′08″.98

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