NGC 2146 #1 (Molly Wakeling)

Celestial hemisphere: Northern · Constellation: Camelopardalis (Cam) · Contains: NGC 2146 · PGC 142974 · PGC 2776482

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NGC 2146 #1

Finalllyyy processed this one....started taking images on it over a year ago...

This is a messy barred spiral galaxy in the constellation Camelopardalis (cam-oh-lo-PAR-da-lis) (the constellation is a giraffe, not a camel! But the Greek origin of the word is camel + spotted).
The disrupted shape is from a close pass of another, smaller galaxy (possibly NGC 2146a, which is just out of frame of this shot) some 800,000 years ago, which bent one of the arms up to 45 degrees out of plane. This gravitational encounter is also what caused the tidal stream coming off the galaxy -- those are stars! Millions of them. The thick, dusty lane that stretches across the core in our edge-on view has all kinds of cool detail.

This is another wideband capture from my Bortle 7 backyard, which is always a challenge. My flat panel flats didn't work very well while my t-shirt flats worked great, so quite a few of the frames didn't get well flat-fielded. But you can sort of see some of the IFN (integrated flux nebula) in some other versions of this image I made, but this one had the best detail and less-yucky noise. This image spans two telescopes -- I got my Celestron 9.25 Edge HD in March of last year. The version of this image registered on a reference frame from the C8 came out with better detail on the galaxy, although I had to crop a lot of it out, so it has a smaller field-of-view.

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RA (center)	06h18m42s.680
RA (top/left)	06h15m39s.162
RA (top/right)	06h17m13s.781
RA (bottom/right)	06h21m42s.791
RA (bottom/left)	06h20m14s.870

Dec (center)	+78°21′38″.13
Dec (top/left)	+78°27′09″.33
Dec (top/right)	+78°11′52″.54
Dec (bottom/right)	+78°16′00″.44
Dec (bottom/left)	+78°31′21″.51

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