Elliptical Galaxy NGC 6841

Elliptical Galaxy NGC 6841
Also: Spiral Galaxies ESO 461-24 & ESO 461-25

Galaxies NGC 6841, ESO 461-24, ESO 461-25
A 10 minute exposure taken with ST-9E CCD camera thru Kopernik's 20 inch telescope. The scope was focal reduced to F/4. The field of view is about 16x16 arc minutes, with North at the top.

Quote on NGC 6841 from Dreyer's New General Catalog(NGC):

"Very faint, small, round, pretty abruptly brighter middle."

There is not much information on these three galaxies in Sagittarius including a lack of red-shift data for NGC 6841 and ESO 461-24. They are possibly a loosely related group. Both of the spiral galaxies have peculiar shapes and both are infrared and radio sources. Based on its red shift, a rough distance estimate for galaxy ESO 461-25 is 340 million light years.

NGC 6841

Magnitude: 13.4

Constellation: Sagittarius

RA: 19h 57m 49.1s

Dec: -31° 48' 35" Epoch 2000

Size (mins): 1.5' x 1.4'

Classification: E0:, Elliptical(uncertain)

ESO 461-24

Magnitude: 15.1

RA: 19h 58m 07.2s

Dec: -31° 52' 16" Epoch 2000

Size (mins): 1.1' x 0.4'

Classification: Sa: pec sp, Spiral(uncertain), peculiar, spindle shaped

ESO 461-25

Magnitude: 14.5

RA: 19h 58m 17.0s

Dec: -31° 46' 21" Epoch 2000

Size (mins): 1.3' x 0.9'

Classification: Spiral Galaxy, peculiar

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George Normandin, KAS

October 23rd, 2001

Elliptical Galaxy NGC 6841 Also: Spiral Galaxies ESO 461-24 & ESO 461-25

Elliptical Galaxy NGC 6841
Also: Spiral Galaxies ESO 461-24 & ESO 461-25