NGC 4725 and Arp 159 (Andre Vilhena)

Celestial hemisphere: Northern · Constellation: Coma Berenices (Com) · Contains: HD111367 · HD111395 · HD111514 · HD111541 · HD111605 · HD111813 · HD111842 · HD111878 · HD112032 · NGC 4712 · NGC 4725 · NGC 4747

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NGC 4725 and Arp 159

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NGC 4725 and Arp 159

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Taking advantage of some clear nights near the New Moon, I took the opportunity to shoot again this lovely interacting galaxy pair in Coma Berenices constellation.

This cosmic landscape features NGC 4725 (the largest galaxy), an intermediate barred spiral galaxy with only one arm, giving rise to an interesting ring structure and located at about 40 million light years from us. This galaxy is strongly interacting with its neighbour NGC 4747, also known as Arp 159, the lobated galaxy on the right of NGC 4725. These lobes are tidal tails which indicate this galaxy has suffered strong gravitational interactions somewhere in its past.

It is the second time I shoot this area, the first one at being at my Bortle 8 home location while this one is taken from the Bortle 3 skies at the remote observatory. Quite similar integration time but much better outcome this time.

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RA (center)	12h50m38s.51
RA (top/left)	12h52m46s.10
RA (top/right)	12h54m26s.11
RA (bottom/right)	12h48m28s.62
RA (bottom/left)	12h46m54s.80

Dec (center)	+25°30′19″.1
Dec (top/left)	+24°23′25″.8
Dec (top/right)	+26°22′09″.5
Dec (bottom/right)	+26°37′02″.0
Dec (bottom/left)	+24°38′05″.3

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