NGC 1261 (Claudio Tenreiro)

Celestial hemisphere: Southern · Constellation: Horologium (Hor) · Contains: IC 1908 · NGC 1261 · PGC 11916 · PGC 11918 · PGC 12086 · PGC 138611 · PGC 145348 · PGC 408026 · PGC 408119 · PGC 408166 · PGC 408434 · PGC 409099 · PGC 409251 · PGC 410065 · PGC 410640 · PGC 410842 · PGC 410944 · PGC 411050 · PGC 411536 · PGC 411733 · PGC 411970 · PGC 412546 · PGC 412715 · PGC 412733 · PGC 412882 · PGC 413001 · PGC 413239 · PGC 413397 · PGC 413405 · PGC 413491 · And 15 more.

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NGC 1261

This cluster is quite interesting to image with a a larger equipment to try resolving the galaxies that are next to it, at least 4 of them (they are quite faint in this image). Also interesting is the IC 1908 galaxy on the top left side, which is a pair of galaxies.

The cluster itself seems to have some particular interest for astronomers, in fact, searching for some information I found something completely new for me, regarding sausages and galaxies

, the cluster seems that was born from the "Gaia-Enceladus galaxy", according to Wikipedia is a kind of sausage galaxy...(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaia_Sausage) and if I understood correctly, this cluster is migrating towards the halo of the Milky Way. Any way, there a few quite fascinating issues regarding some dynamic of a few GC in the region. The later constitute an incentive to read more about it.
If someone wishes to read about, the study of NGC 1261 is in https://arxiv.org/abs/2104.11243

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RA (center)	03h12m37s.68
RA (top/left)	03h15m46s.91
RA (top/right)	03h09m30s.27
RA (bottom/right)	03h09m24s.47
RA (bottom/left)	03h15m49s.30

Dec (center)	-55°09′37″.9
Dec (top/left)	-54°44′37″.9
Dec (top/right)	-54°44′22″.9
Dec (bottom/right)	-55°34′19″.6
Dec (bottom/left)	-55°34′35″.5

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