IC 5020 (Gary Imm)

Celestial hemisphere: Southern · Constellation: Microscopium (Mic) · Contains: IC 5020 · PGC 64845 · PGC 64870 · PGC 674592 · PGC 675305 · PGC 675752 · PGC 676230

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This Astrobin Debut Object is one of the few imagable objects in the southern constellation of Microscopium. It is a faint spiral galaxy located 150 million light years away at a declination of -33 degrees. This magnitude 13 galaxy spans almost 3 arc-minutes in our apparent view, which corresponds to a diameter of 120,000 light years.

Aside from the DSS sky atlas image, I could find no other images of this galaxy or any information on it. Which is not a huge surprise, since it isn’t a particularly interesting object. It has three distinct disk regions – a bright core, a fairly bright and distinct mid-disk region, and a very faint outer disk half.

The second “large” galaxy visible in this image, to the left of IC 5020, is ESO 400-37 (PGC 64870). It is not close enough to be interacting with IC 5020. This faint grand spiral galaxy has 2 distinct spiral arms and a large faint outer disk. It is 165 million light years away and is 90,000 light years in diameter.

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RA (center)	20h30m56s.810
RA (top/left)	20h31m39s.274
RA (top/right)	20h30m08s.561
RA (bottom/right)	20h30m12s.751
RA (bottom/left)	20h31m43s.727

Dec (center)	-33°28′52″.82
Dec (top/left)	-33°21′16″.94
Dec (top/right)	-33°22′30″.51
Dec (bottom/right)	-33°36′27″.85
Dec (bottom/left)	-33°35′13″.97

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