Fiddlehead Galaxy (NGC772 / Peculiar spiral galaxy Arp 78 ) and the lights of even more distant suns (DoubleStarPhotography)

Celestial hemisphere: Northern · Constellation: Aries (Ari) · Contains: NGC 770 · NGC 772 · PGC 1566894 · PGC 1566903 · PGC 1569498 · PGC 1569905 · PGC 1569983 · PGC 1570016 · PGC 1570709 · PGC 1571764 · PGC 1573401 · PGC 1573896 · PGC 1575486 · PGC 1575861 · PGC 1577099 · PGC 1577343 · PGC 1577957 · PGC 1579877 · PGC 1580734 · PGC 1582319 · PGC 1582580 · PGC 1588841 · PGC 212884 · PGC 3090162 · PGC 7421 · PGC 7493 · PGC 7509

Fiddlehead Galaxy (NGC772 / Peculiar spiral galaxy Arp 78 ) and the lights of even more distant suns

NGC 772, also known as peculiar spiral galaxy Arp 78, is an unbarred spiral galaxy approximately 200,000 light years in diameter and 130 million light-years away in the constellation Aries.

I had been looking for a fun/interesting target in my birth constellation of Aries, and happened across this unique object! I especially like the scattering of distant background galaxies in this field of view.

This is my first look at this galaxy, but won't be my last! :-)

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RA (center)	01h59m22s.920
RA (top/left)	02h00m48s.305
RA (top/right)	02h00m45s.634
RA (bottom/right)	01h57m57s.205
RA (bottom/left)	01h58m00s.506

Dec (center)	+19°00′18″.90
Dec (top/left)	+18°40′46″.32
Dec (top/right)	+19°20′31″.26
Dec (bottom/right)	+19°19′48″.95
Dec (bottom/left)	+18°40′04″.51

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