NGC 6116 in WBL 612 or Zwicky 1615.8+3505 (Bob Stevenson)

Celestial hemisphere: Northern · Constellation: Corona Borealis (CrB) · Contains: NGC 6105 · NGC 6107 · NGC 6108 · NGC 6109 · NGC 6110 · NGC 6112 · NGC 6114 · NGC 6116 · PGC 2054299 · PGC 2054462 · PGC 2054660 · PGC 2055213 · PGC 2055243 · PGC 2055440 · PGC 2055480 · PGC 2056058 · PGC 2056258 · PGC 2056493 · PGC 2056827 · PGC 2057323 · PGC 2057404 · PGC 2057497 · PGC 2057521 · PGC 2057557 · PGC 2058482 · PGC 2058582 · PGC 2059143 · PGC 2060285 · PGC 2060365 · PGC 2060532 · And 13 more.

NGC 6116 in WBL 612 or Zwicky 1615.8+3505

I did a galaxy cluster a while ago in starless inverted mono. It seems most followers do not like this kind of shot given the 'likes', but I think it is the best way to show those little fuzzy spots that mean so much when defining our place in the universe. So I included the starless inverted mono image in the mouse-over version.

WBL stands for 'The Catalog of Nearby Poor Clusters of Galaxies of White et al. (1999)' which was previously unknown to me. It is also entry 1615.8+3505 in the Zwicky galaxy cluster listing. WBL 612 includes galaxies NGC 6105, 6107, 6108, 6109, 6110, 6112, 6114, and 6116. The whole group seems to be referred to by its brightest member NGC 6107. The approximate distance to the group is 400 million light years.

When I was creating this project in NINA, I called it NGC 6112. But 6112 is one of the more boring galaxies in the shot. The jewel in this field of view is the beautiful NGC 6116. What a tremendous little symmetrical spiral structure. I have searched for other images of this galaxy on Astrobin and found only wide field shots. As far as I can tell, this is the best representation of this object to date on this site. If that is true, some of the astrophotographers with longer scopes need to take a look at this one! Runners up are NGC 6108 followed by NGC 6105.

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RA (center)	16h18m01s.270
RA (top/left)	16h17m10s.300
RA (top/right)	16h16m43s.722
RA (bottom/right)	16h18m51s.746
RA (bottom/left)	16h19m19s.406

Dec (center)	+35°02′58″.38
Dec (top/left)	+35°24′30″.85
Dec (top/right)	+34°45′08″.42
Dec (bottom/right)	+34°41′25″.56
Dec (bottom/left)	+35°20′46″.57

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