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NGC 4274, 4314, 4278 and Friends, Alan Brunelle
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NGC 4274, 4314, 4278 and Friends

Revision title: Revision, with new data.

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NGC 4274, 4314, 4278 and Friends

Revision title: Revision, with new data.

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Revision 1/27/2023: 
I added over two hours to this project from old data.  I had been putting this sort of project into a new post, but I have to say that I am not that happy with the outcome.  Yes, the added data seemed to help marginally with some of the detail and background.  Yes, the new tools seemed to help make this go faster.  But I just could not get the color right.  Starting off PCC just simply refused to correct color.  And I have not gotten Spectrometric Gaia stuff going yet.  In any case, I am not at all happy with the colors that I got.  So I am putting it within the old post since I do not see this as that significant of an improvement.  And I also have nothing more to say about the subjects.

Original Description:
A field of galaxies, notable because of the presence of three strongly barred galaxies. The most striking, partially because it is the spatially largest of the barred galaxies is 4314. 4314 is also interesting because the bar itself shows some structure, though my widefield is not the best to tease those out. There is some evidence of clouds within the "arms" of the bar and the nucleus is complex, with what appears to be a spiral or ringed structure. 4274, the spiral is strongly ringed, or at least a single very tightly wound spiral arm that contains the bulk of star-forming regions. The whole thing is surrounded by a ring of much less structured mostly older stars. This galaxy is not the most active star-forming as judged by the rather muted colors. My guess is that this is well on its way to transitioning into an elliptical. Speaking of which, there are three prominent ellipticals as well. Though the ellipticals appear close to each other, none really show evidence of tidal disruption, so my guess that this is just fortuitous alignment. The rest of the field is scattered with distant galaxies, some identified and others not with the plate-solve.

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Title: Revision, with new data.

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NGC 4274, 4314, 4278 and Friends, Alan Brunelle