NGC 6951 (Gary Imm)

Celestial hemisphere: Northern · Constellation: Cepheus (Cep) · Contains: NGC 6951 · NGC 6952

NGC 6951

This object, known as both NGC 6951 and NGC 6952, is a barred spiral Seyfert galaxy located 75 million light years away in the constellation of Cepheus at a declination of +66. The object is 4 arc-minutes in our apparent view, corresponding to a diameter of 100,000 light years. The galaxy looks almost face-on to me but is actually 40 degrees from face-on in our apparent view.

Note the tiny bright distinct nuclear ring of star formation at the core of the galaxy.

I love the 3 distinct arms that leave the bar and gracefully wind around the core. One arm extends from each end of the bar, at left and at right, and a third arm uniquely extends from the bottom center of the bar. As this third arm winds counterclockwise around the core towards the top and then to the left, two Vorontsov-Velyaminov rows are visible in the arm. Several areas of blue star clusters can be seen in the arms, contrasting with the yellowish core.

The galaxy is viewed through Integrated Flux Nebula (IFN) illuminated by the residual light of our galaxy, although in my f/10 image I was not able to capture much of it.

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RA (center)	20h37m14s.682
RA (top/left)	20h39m04s.499
RA (top/right)	20h35m24s.174
RA (bottom/right)	20h35m25s.885
RA (bottom/left)	20h39m04s.900

Dec (center)	+66°06′21″.90
Dec (top/left)	+66°14′02″.10
Dec (top/right)	+66°13′56″.24
Dec (bottom/right)	+65°58′36″.62
Dec (bottom/left)	+65°58′42″.34

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