Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Lynx (Lyn)  ·  Contains:  NGC 2782
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NGC2782 a.k.a. Arp 215 - a rarely imaged merger remnant in the constellation Lynx, GalacticRAVE
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NGC2782 a.k.a. Arp 215 - a rarely imaged merger remnant in the constellation Lynx

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NGC2782 a.k.a. Arp 215 - a rarely imaged merger remnant in the constellation Lynx, GalacticRAVE
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NGC2782 a.k.a. Arp 215 - a rarely imaged merger remnant in the constellation Lynx

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NGC2782, also object 215 in Chip Arp's famous catalog of peculiar galaxies, is a rarely imaged galaxy on astrobin. I only could find a few higher resolution picture - and none going very deep (i.e. showing the very faint tidal debris at 8' clock). Same on the internet in general. But it is a beautiful example of the left over of a merging between two larger galaxies, full of tidal features, shells and so on. So it definitely  was worth spending a bit more time on this beauty - hope you like it! The object is some 75 Mly away from us and has a diameter of about 100 000 ly. NGC 2782 features a AGN at its center and a star burst in the circumnuclear region. Also the tidal tails exhibit some star formation activity.

Revision B is a crop/zoom in, while revision A give a wider view on the setting of this interesting object.

Data were taken on 2023 Nov 21, Dec 17 and 2024 Jan 7,8,9, and 10.

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