Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Pegasus (Peg)  ·  Contains:  NGC 1  ·  NGC 2
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NGC 1 and NGC 2, Gary Imm
NGC 1 and NGC 2, Gary Imm

NGC 1 and NGC 2

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NGC 1 and NGC 2, Gary Imm
NGC 1 and NGC 2, Gary Imm

NGC 1 and NGC 2

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This pair of beautiful distant spiral galaxies is located in the constellation of Pegasus at a declination of +28 degrees.   Despite posing for us together in this image, the 2 galaxies are not located close to each other. 

NGC 1, the larger galaxy, is a magnitude 13 galaxy located 240 million light years away whose main disk region has a diameter of 100,000 light years.  Its faint outer disk extends out to 200,000 light years in diameter.  The disk is inclined about halfway between face-on and edge-on.  It looks like something has disturbed this galaxy, resulting in arm fragments and an extended outer disk.

NGC 2 is a magnitude 14 galaxy located 290 million light years away.  It has a diameter of 100,000 light years and is inclined about 25 degrees from edge-on.  An interesting strong arm extends up and to the right.

When the NGC objects were first numbered, these two objects had the lowest right ascension numbers of all of the objects in the catalog.  But since the coordinates have shifted over time, there are now 40 NGC objects with lower RA coordinates (NGC 7801 through NGC 7840)

This is the 3rd image of this pair on Astrobin – my friend Rudi image this pair last year here.

The bright speck just below NGC 2 is a spiral galaxy which by my estimate is located about 3 billion light years away.

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