NGC 6339 Isolated Field Galaxy (Mau_Bard)

Celestial hemisphere: Northern · Constellation: Hercules (Her) · Contains: NGC 6339 · NGC 6343 · PGC 2167399 · PGC 2169897 · PGC 2170931 · PGC 2171108 · PGC 2171217 · PGC 2171885 · PGC 2173492 · PGC 2174211 · PGC 2175791 · PGC 60007 · PGC 60008 · PGC 60020 · PGC 91588

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NGC 6339 Isolated Field Galaxy

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NGC 6339 Isolated Field Galaxy

NGC 6339 is a barred spiral galaxy located in the constellation Hercules with an estimated distance of 100 million light year (Mly) and a diameter of 84 kly.
It was discovered by American astronomer Lewis Swift in1887.

It is a field galaxy, that means that means it does not belong to a cluster, therefore it is gravitationally isolated. Universe expansion will increase its isolation.
The closeby galaxies PGB60007 and NGC6343 are in reality much more distant and not interacting with NGC 6339.

Data was recorded during the nights of 9 and 10 march 2022 from my Bortle 7 terrace in Vienna (Austria). The 10th was extremely windy and I had to discard nearly all the sub-exposures taken on that night. After that episode, I resolved myself to apply a ballast to the mount base to increase stability and possibly avoid overturning.

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Austria Astrophotography

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RA (center)	17h17m06s.794
RA (top/left)	17h18m59s.999
RA (top/right)	17h15m12s.540
RA (bottom/right)	17h15m14s.793
RA (bottom/left)	17h19m00s.730

Dec (center)	+40°50′25″.72
Dec (top/left)	+41°08′46″.17
Dec (top/right)	+41°08′29″.20
Dec (bottom/right)	+40°31′58″.36
Dec (bottom/left)	+40°32′14″.73

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