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Astrobin Debut Object is a pair of galaxies located in the constellation of Eridanus at a declination of -22 degrees. The top galaxy is NGC 1415 and the bottom galaxy is NGC 1416. They are too far apart to be interacting.
NGC 1415 is a magnitude 12.5 lenticular galaxy located 75 million light years away. I am surprised that it has been imaged so little. The entire extent of this galaxy spans 6 arc-minutes in our apparent view, which corresponds to a diameter of 120,000 light years. The bright central portion is only about one-third of that distance.
The faint outer region is hard to see, but an interesting star pattern is visible through the disk at lower left. The small bright core is surrounded by a medium-brightness central region. The most interesting part is the dust lane which skirts the right side of the core and snakes out to the outer disk.
I framed this image to also include the elliptical galaxy NGC 1416 at the bottom. This object is 95 million light years away and 40,000 light years in diameter. There is a slight star stream bias to the top right, but it is very faint.
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