A couple of galaxies around Sigma Pavo. (Claudio Tenreiro)

Celestial hemisphere: Southern · Constellation: Pavo (Pav) · Contains: IC 5052 · NGC 6943 · PGC 279702 · PGC 279971 · PGC 280315 · PGC 280449 · PGC 280465 · PGC 280655 · PGC 280779 · PGC 280877 · PGC 281144 · PGC 281497 · PGC 281694 · PGC 282208 · PGC 282316 · PGC 282376 · PGC 282691 · PGC 282900 · PGC 283008 · PGC 283417 · PGC 283436 · PGC 283804 · PGC 284333 · PGC 284510 · PGC 284586 · PGC 284815 · PGC 284898 · PGC 285158 · PGC 285175 · PGC 285344 · And 11 more.

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A couple of galaxies around Sigma Pavo.

Around the star Sigma Pavo there are a few galaxies, the two larger ones are the spiral NGC 6943 and the Barred spiral IC 5052. It is amazing the number of systems around. The fainter one I could identify is ZSFW N6943 a, B magnitude 16.6, but the ESO 74-20 is a pair of interacting galaxies, namely PGC's 65678 and 680. ESO 74-9 or PGC 65445 (quite close to PGC 65441) has a nice shape, but too little to be noticed here. Next time, maybe, I shall try a large tube, perhaps I could get an image from a remote system. This is one of the cases where I like to have the chance of doing remote imaging, accessing a larger scope from one of the services available in several countries.

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RA (center)	20h48m28s.88
RA (top/left)	20h55m09s.15
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RA (bottom/right)	20h41m31s.42
RA (bottom/left)	20h55m08s.65

Dec (center)	-68°52′38″.0
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