This series of
Astrobin Debut Objects are located in the constellation of Aquarius at a declination of -3 degrees.
The only object in the image with an identifier of less than 15 characters is the bright magnitude 15 edge-on spiral at the center, PGC 1076468. This galaxy is sometimes referred to as IC 1413 but that is not recognized by SIMBAD or other sources. This galaxy is 250 million light years away and is 50,000 light years in diameter.
The other 4 galaxies in the image are fainter but more interesting:
- The most interesting galaxy is just below the center of the image, a near edge-on galaxy with an offcenter small bright region (a core?) and a fascinating set of plumes which extend in opposite point symmetric directions, down and up.
- The galaxy towards the bottom right is another bright edge-on spiral, but this one has a dark void ring around the mid-region.
- The face-on galaxy towards the top right center is an asymmetric low surface brightness barred face-on galaxy.
- The galaxy at center right has a long plume that extends out to the lower right and curls up.
The lack of information for the above galaxies makes it impossible to know if the deformations that we see are being caused by their interactions with each other. Chances are, though, that they are too far apart for that.
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