Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Camelopardalis (Cam)  ·  Contains:  HD54451
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Arp 141, Icharuss
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Arp 141

Acquisition type: Electronically-Assisted Astronomy (EAA, e.g. based on a live video feed)
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Arp 141, Icharuss
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Arp 141

Acquisition type: Electronically-Assisted Astronomy (EAA, e.g. based on a live video feed)

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Now this is a strange galaxy.  At first glance, maybe looks like a squid with a bright pinpoint eye glowing in an elongated head and trailing two tentacles behind.  Surrounding field looks to have a couple other interesting galaxies - none of them has a "normal" shape.  The tentacles are actually almost a complete ring except the shape is more like a diamond than a circle.  At 20m I can start to pick out many brightness variations in the ring structure.

SC labels the entire "squid" PGC 20460 but then labels the two bright spots in the "head" PGC 2000231 (neaarest to the tentacles) and Arp 141 just to the left.  UGC 3705 and PGC 20434 are nearby.

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Arp 141, Icharuss