Arp 168 - M32 (with M31) (Gary Imm)

Celestial hemisphere: Northern · Constellation: Andromeda (And) · Contains: Andromeda Galaxy · M 110 · M 31 · M 32 · NGC 205 · NGC 206 · NGC 221 · NGC 224 · PGC 2162367 · PGC 2162656 · PGC 2162723 · PGC 2163200 · PGC 2163634 · PGC 2164256 · PGC 2166532 · PGC 2166758 · PGC 2167368 · PGC 2168731 · PGC 2168810 · PGC 2169318 · PGC 2171339 · PGC 2171657 · PGC 2172440 · PGC 2174300 · PGC 2174839 · PGC 2174855 · PGC 2175082 · PGC 2175091 · PGC 2175999 · PGC 2176150 · And 25 more.

Arp 168 - M32 (with M31)

This object is NGC 221, a elliptical galaxy satellite of the beautiful and massive Andromeda Galaxy. This object was placed by Dr. Arp in the category of Galaxies - Diffuse Countertails.

M31 located only 2.5 million light years from earth in the constellation of its own name. The M31 disk contains many billions of suns. The massive black hole at the center of the galaxy is not visible. The other main satellite galaxy, M110, is seen to the upper right.

Many dark dust lanes are evident from near the M31 core all the way out to the outer ring. It is interesting to me how the dust lanes on the near (right) side of the galaxy disk show up much more prominently than the dust lanes on the far (left) side.

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RA (center)	00h42m35s.26
RA (top/left)	00h49m15s.49
RA (top/right)	00h36m07s.35
RA (bottom/right)	00h36m05s.50
RA (bottom/left)	00h48m53s.29

Dec (center)	+40°59′45″.2
Dec (top/left)	+41°46′33″.4
Dec (top/right)	+41°50′04″.0
Dec (bottom/right)	+40°11′35″.8
Dec (bottom/left)	+40°08′09″.8

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