Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Leo (Leo)  ·  Contains:  Copeland's Septet  ·  NGC 3745  ·  NGC 3746  ·  NGC 3748  ·  NGC 3750  ·  NGC 3751  ·  NGC 3753  ·  NGC 3754  ·  PGC 1660846  ·  PGC 1661085  ·  PGC 1662685  ·  PGC 169872  ·  PGC 36010
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NGC 3750 Coplands Septet or ARP 320 or HCG57, Riedl Rudolf
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NGC 3750 Coplands Septet or ARP 320 or HCG57

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NGC 3750 Coplands Septet or ARP 320 or HCG57, Riedl Rudolf
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NGC 3750 Coplands Septet or ARP 320 or HCG57

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Coplands Septet is a group of Galaxies in a distance of 430 mio Lj. Even so that this should have 7 members there are in fact 8. The 8th is a small Galaxy in between the other members, which was too dark to be seen in the past. The name of this small one is PGC 36010 with a diameter of only 0,3 x 0,15 arcmin and a mag of 18.
Now the "real members" of the Septet: Sizes in arcmin. All of them are in the range of 15th and 16th mag.

NGC 3748   0,45 x 0,23
NGC 3746   0,80 x 0,40
NGC 3748   0,44 x 0,23
NGC 3750   0,90 x 0,70
NGC 3751   0,50 x 0,25
NGC 3753   0,86 x 0,65
NGC 3754   0,60 x 0,50

If you compare the sizes with the real sizes in the picture, than they do not really fit!

Looking at the "CLOSE UP" take into consideration that all Galaxies are much smaller than 1 arcmin!!

There are plenty of other really small galaxies in the FULL FIELD of VIEW which still represents a focal length of 2 meter! Have a look there as well.

This is a complete new processing of data from 2020!!

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