This
Astrobin Debut Object is a small spiral galaxy located 160 million light years away in the constellation of Perseus at a declination of +42 degrees. It is a magnitude 14 galaxy which spans 1.2 arc-minutes in our apparent view. This corresponds to a diameter of 60,000 light years.
From our view perspective, the disk is inclined about 10 degrees from edge-on.
The disk inclination prevents us from having a great view of the disk but some interesting details are still apparent. The arm structure is odd - bright but fragmented around the core, with 2 parallel bright flocculent-like lines running at about 2 o'clock from the core to the outer disk. Small star clouds are seen in the ill-defined outer disk, which appears to have star plumes. The galaxy has been disturbed but the culprit is not obvious.
Although such a galaxy shape is unique in the universe, I have seen a few galaxies that are surprisingly similar to this one. They include
NGC 812 and
NGC 6239.
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