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Astrobin Debut Object is an edge-on spiral galaxy located 270 million light years away in the constellation of Sextans at a declination of -7 degrees. This magnitude 14 galaxy spans 1 arc-minute in our apparent view, which corresponds to a diameter of 80,000 light years.
This galaxy has an unusually bright, almost rectangular bulge. The dust lane is rotated slightly counterclockwise from the mid-line of the galaxy. The dust lane is also a bit “wobbly” along its length.
This galaxy was classified by Dr. Arp into the category of Double Galaxies with Wind Effects. But this galaxy looks simply like a normal edge-on spiral to me. Perhaps the “wind effects” he is referring to is the slight right bias of the outer star halo, but that aspect of this object does not look significant to me.
It looks to me like this galaxy has 2 faint small dwarf companions immediately below it - the blue galaxy below right is MCG-1-25-57 at magnitude 16.6, and the faint galaxy below left is LEDA 1027592. The faint galaxy immediately above, LEDA 1028040, looks like a distant spiral to me. There is no distance information available for any of these galaxies.
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