NGC1184 (lowenthalm)

Celestial hemisphere: Northern · Constellation: Cepheus (Cep) · Contains: NGC 1184 · PGC 12322 · PGC 2783749 · PGC 2783916

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NGC1184

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NGC1184

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This is an edge on S0 lenticular galaxy with a rather box-like nucleus that almost looks doubled, but has a concentrated bright center. If we had a perspective from above it would be more like a disk since it no doubt was once a lively spiral galaxy. Quite odd looking in its "old age". The appearance is not a result of processing, as other images I can find show the same thing. However, there aren't any decent images of this object that I can find online besides the data in SDSS DR9.

The seeing wasn't great, so star images are a little bloated, but the galaxy is quite diffuse and smooth, with no knots or lanes of dust as would be seen in galaxies that are still forming stars. This one is pretty much done with that phase of its life. It does seem to have a ghostly quality to it, which is appropriate, I think.

Its reasonably bright at 13th magnitude, and is roughly 3.5 x 1 arc minute in dimension. In reality, its a bit larger than our galaxy at 126,000 light years in diameter and 120 million light years away.

The little galaxy at the bottom of the image next to the orange star is MCG+13-03-003 (LEDA/PGC 12322). Its much dimmer that NGC 1184 at about 16.5 magnitude. There is no redshift data avaialble on SIMBAD, so the distance is may be unknown, but its clearly quite a bit farther away. At first glance it appears to be an elliptical, however it has a slight butterfly shape rather than a diffuse oval shape, so it make be an evolved spiral, reminding me of NGC 3628 minus the dust lane.

This is a stack of 5 eight minute images, each live-stacked in SharpCap using 2 second subs.

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RA (center)	03h16m48s.528
RA (top/left)	03h14m21s.298
RA (top/right)	03h13m29s.376
RA (bottom/right)	03h19m10s.770
RA (bottom/left)	03h20m14s.227

Dec (center)	+80°47′36″.43
Dec (top/left)	+80°58′21″.60
Dec (top/right)	+80°38′23″.44
Dec (bottom/right)	+80°36′48″.62
Dec (bottom/left)	+80°56′42″.48

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