NGC4762 and NGC4754 (Michael Feigenbaum)

NGC4762 and NGC4754

Here we have a crack at NGC 4762 and NGC 4754, a visual pair of galaxies in Virgo.

NGC4762 is an unusual galaxy that was classified by Stephen James O'Mara in his book The Secret Deep (2011), as an "Armless Edge-On Lenticular galaxy (SO1)". He also tagged it with the moniker of The Paper Kite Galaxy which came from a description made by Admiral William Henry Smyth in his, The Bedford Catalog, From a Cycle of Celestial Objects (1844).

This galaxy is quite large at about 170,000 ly in diameter and lies at a distance of some 65 million ly. It is almost exactly oriented to us in an edge-on position and is, in some circles, called the flattest galaxy in the universe.

NGC4754 lies much closer to us at about 50 million ly and a spiral of about 70,000 ly in diameter.

I find NGC 4762 to be interesting in that there does not appear to be any color that can be pulled from this. It is white... And flat.

I would have done more integration but a mount issue has been plaguing me. I believe I have it sorted, it was a cable.

With regard to the processing, the idea was to keep things simple while gaining more experience with the GHS script. I wanted to keep the color saturation very conservative as well. Additionally, there really are a multitude of small background galaxies in this field that I wanted to preserve. An interesting spot to look at is at the lower right of NGC4762, there are a number of very nice and distant spirals to see.

This was really an enjoyable project and I hope you like the result!

CS and good health...

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Description: Mine on the left, the iconic Hubble image of this on the right... A fun comparison

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RA (center)	12h52m41s.189
RA (top/left)	12h53m53s.460
RA (top/right)	12h51m15s.178
RA (bottom/right)	12h51m29s.493
RA (bottom/left)	12h54m07s.146

Dec (center)	+11°15′32″.53
Dec (top/left)	+11°30′59″.40
Dec (top/right)	+11°25′43″.87
Dec (bottom/right)	+11°00′04″.89
Dec (bottom/left)	+11°05′19″.57

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