Arp 223

Posted by dcrowson
on Wednesday, December 12, 2018

Arp 223 (NGC 7585, PGC 70986 and others) is a member of Arp’s ‘Amorphous Spiral Arms’ class and is located approximately 163 million light-years away in Aquarius. This one looks a lot like a shell galaxy to me.

NGC 7576 (PGC 70948 and others) is located south west of Arp 223. It is also classified as a pair of galaxies but, much like Arp 223, one can’t really tell from the image.

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

360 minutes total exposure – 6 hours

Imaged November 28th and December 3rd, 8th and 9th, 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/32417261438/sizes/l

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