NGC 6376 & NGC 6377 (Gary Imm)

Celestial hemisphere: Northern · Constellation: Draco (Dra) · Contains: NGC 6376 · NGC 6377 · PGC 2582497 · PGC 2583024

NGC 6376 & NGC 6377

This object is a pair of tiny interacting galaxies located 400 million light years away in the constellation of Draco at a declination of +59 degrees. Each galaxy spans just over 30 arc-seconds in our apparent view, about the same size to us as the planet Jupiter. The actual diameter of each galaxy is about 75,000 light years. I like the color contrast between these 2 galaxies.

NGC 6376 is the blue irregularly shaped galaxy on the right. The galaxy appears severly disturbed, with a bright wavy core and an oddly shaped outer region.

NGC 6377 is an edge-on yellow spiral which doesn’t appear nearly as disturbed as its companion, although the core is oddly offset to the left.

A faint star stream bridge appears to connect these two galaxies.

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RA (center)	17h25m21s.274
RA (top/left)	17h26m21s.199
RA (top/right)	17h24m19s.790
RA (bottom/right)	17h24m21s.702
RA (bottom/left)	17h26m22s.413

Dec (center)	+58°49′10″.10
Dec (top/left)	+58°55′15″.60
Dec (top/right)	+58°54′59″.32
Dec (bottom/right)	+58°43′02″.92
Dec (bottom/left)	+58°43′18″.64

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