Galaxies in Pavo (ChrisG_BNE)

Celestial hemisphere: Southern · Constellation: Pavo (Pav) · Contains: IC 4967 · IC 4970 · IC 4971 · IC 4972 · IC 4981 · NGC 6872 · NGC 6876 · NGC 6877 · NGC 6880

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Galaxies in Pavo

NGC 6872 is a large spiral galaxy in the constellation of Pavo the Peacock, which sits in the southern sky a bit lower in the sky and further east of the southern cross. NGC 6872 is the one on the left of this image.

NGC 6872, or the Condor Galaxy, is big, very big. It's structure is dominated by two large spiral arms. Measured tip-to-tip across the galaxy it measures >500,000 light years across (about 3x the diameter of the Milky Way) and sits at an approximate distance of 212 Million light years away from us.

But what is interesting is that it is an interacting galaxy. The smaller galaxy on the lower left side, catalogued as IC 4970, is interacting with the lower arm of the Condor and if you take a close look at this image you can see the lower arm has a very different shape to the arc compared to the upper arm. The lower arm should be similarly shaped - but it is not. Parts of the lower arm are being drawn toward the other galaxy, and the lower part of the lower arm makes an abrupt change off to the right side.

Also in this image are NGC 6876 (brightest on the right near the centre of the image), then NGC 6877, NGC 6880 and IC 4981 as you move toward the lower right. Above NGC 6876 is IC 4972. There are also a bunch more galaxies in this image, but getting quite difficult for my basic gear to see.

Best 2h45min of images used to generate this out of a total of 6hr collected. Imaged with the long telescope at 1800mm focal length.

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RA (center)	20h17m50s.364
RA (top/left)	20h13m51s.120
RA (top/right)	20h18m11s.270
RA (bottom/right)	20h21m52s.830
RA (bottom/left)	20h17m30s.178

Dec (center)	-70°48′05″.97
Dec (top/left)	-70°42′33″.74
Dec (top/right)	-71°08′32″.41
Dec (bottom/right)	-70°53′18″.40
Dec (bottom/left)	-70°27′39″.32

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