NGC 2595 & UGC 4414 (Gary Imm)

Celestial hemisphere: Northern · Constellation: Cancer (Cnc) · Contains: NGC 2595

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NGC 2595 & UGC 4414

This image captures a pair of unrelated galaxies located in the constellation of Cancer at a declination of +21 degrees.

NGC 2595 is on the right, next to the 9th magnitude star HD 71324, and lies 190 million light years from us. This galaxy spans 2.5 arc-minutes in our apparent view, which corresponds to a diameter of 135,000 light years. The galaxy is slightly barred and has several bright blue star clusters in its arms. The central region is partially ring-shaped, disrupted by one arm that extends far away from the galaxy and forms a Vorontsov-Velyaminov row.

This galaxy is obviously severely disturbed, but by what? SIMBAD shows that the bright area on the right edge of the galaxy disk is actually another galaxy (SDSS J082744.10+212757.1), so perhaps this is the disturbing companion.

The galaxy on the left, UGC 4414, is a classic ring galaxy shape. This galaxy is much further away at a distance of 330 million light years. The ring has a diameter of 90,000 light years.

Looking carefully just left of this galaxy in the full resolution view, you can see a large galaxy cluster that is 3 billion light years distant. I count at least 25 galaxies, but at that distance it is hard to really tell. Many other tiny galaxies are also seen throughout the image, including the edge-on super long galaxy UGC 4400 in the upper left corner. This galaxy, 260 million light years away, may have the longest aspect ratio of any galaxy I have even seen.

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RA (center)	08h27m23s.739
RA (top/left)	08h25m51s.568
RA (top/right)	08h27m29s.916
RA (bottom/right)	08h28m55s.811
RA (bottom/left)	08h27m17s.536

Dec (center)	+21°33′42″.96
Dec (top/left)	+21°39′02″.98
Dec (top/right)	+21°11′43″.61
Dec (bottom/right)	+21°28′24″.30
Dec (bottom/left)	+21°55′46″.70

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