NGC 6824 (Gary Imm)

Celestial hemisphere: Northern · Constellation: Cygnus (Cyg) · Contains: NGC 6824 · PGC 214725 · PGC 214726 · PGC 2525210

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NGC 6824

This object is a small spiral galaxy located 220 million light years away in the constellation of Cygnus at a declination of +56 degrees. This galaxy spans 1.5 arc-minutes in our apparent view, which corresponds to an actual diameter of 100,000 light years.

This is one of the few images that I present with south as up. When north is up for this object, what I believe to be the near side of the galaxy is up. I have a hard time visualizing objects when the near side is up.

I like the subtle blue/red color variations of this galaxy. Several interesting dark dust bands are visible on the lower left side of the disk. A number of bright star regions are visible in the upper right side of the disk.

I find the arm structure of this disk to be very odd. The arms are wound tightly and end at mid-disk. The outer disk is diffuse with no arm detail.

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RA (center)	19h43m40s.330
RA (top/left)	19h42m47s.735
RA (top/right)	19h44m34s.251
RA (bottom/right)	19h44m33s.179
RA (bottom/left)	19h42m46s.160

Dec (center)	+56°06′37″.53
Dec (top/left)	+56°01′07″.74
Dec (top/right)	+56°01′23″.40
Dec (bottom/right)	+56°12′05″.87
Dec (bottom/left)	+56°11′50″.46

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