Bear Paw Galaxy - NGC 2537 - Arp 6 (Corey Rueckheim)

Celestial hemisphere: Northern · Constellation: Lynx (Lyn) · Contains: Bear Claw Nebula · Bear Paw galaxy · Bear-Paw Galaxy · NGC 2537

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Bear Paw Galaxy - NGC 2537 - Arp 6

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Bear Paw Galaxy - NGC 2537 - Arp 6

This image contains the Bear Paw Galaxy, NGC 2537. It is a stack of twenty-seven 40-second exposures that I took on 4/17/20 using my Celestron EdgeHD 11" and ZWO ASI294MC-Pro camera.

At magnitude +11.68, the Bear Paw Galaxy lies about 22 million light-years away in the constellation Lynx. It is a small galaxy, only 13,500 light-years in diameter. Compare that to the much fainter NGC 2537A (PGC 23057) that lies to its left in my image. At magnitude +15.69 it looks much fainter and smaller, however it is a much larger galaxy 92,800 light-years in diameter, but lies much further away at a distance of 580 million light-years.

Dozens of other faint galaxies can be identified in the image, as well as well as two quasars, one of which, [VV2006] J081339.4+460341, lies at a redshift of 1.985, which corresponds to a distance of about 8.6 billion light-years. Wow! Click this link for more information and to help identify it in my image.

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RA (center)	08h13m12s.286
RA (top/left)	08h14m24s.693
RA (top/right)	08h12m04s.565
RA (bottom/right)	08h12m00s.245
RA (bottom/left)	08h14m19s.611

Dec (center)	+45°59′33″.54
Dec (top/left)	+46°07′35″.28
Dec (top/right)	+46°08′44″.33
Dec (bottom/right)	+45°51′29″.18
Dec (bottom/left)	+45°50′20″.23

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