Arp 102 - Zwicky's Connected Galaxies

Posted by dcrowson
on Friday, June 8, 2018

Arp 102, also collectively known as Zwicky’s Connected Galaxies, appears to be a set of three galaxies. UGC 10814 (VV 10a and others) is the main galaxy with the tail extending north. MCG+08-31-042 (PGC 60073, VV 10b and others) is the LSB galaxy right next to it. MCG+08-31-041 (PGC 60067, VV 10 and others) is the galaxy below the others with a faint bridge. All of these are located approximately 330 million light-years away in Hercules.

There’s also another odd galaxy to the left (east) of these designated as PGC 140772. It is very odd-looking and could be multiple galaxies interacting. I could not find any other information on it.

Luminance – 24x600s – 240 minutes – binned 1x1
RGB – 8x300s – 40 minutes each – binned 2x2

360 minutes total exposure – 6 hours

Imaged over seven nights in April and May, 2018 from Dark Sky New Mexico at Rancho Hidalgo (Animas, New Mexico) with a SBIG STF-8300M on an Astro-Tech AT12RCT at f/8 2432mm.

LRGB - https://www.flickr.com/photos/dcrowson/42630707622/sizes/l

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