NGC 5846/5850 Galaxy Pair in Virgo

NGC 5850 is a disrupted barred SBb type spiral galaxy in Virgo that is thought to have formed due to a high speed encounter with the massive elliptical galaxy NGC 5846, also shown to the right in the below image.

NGC 5850 is about 4.5' x 3.5' with a mag of 11.5, whereas the elliptical is mag 10.1. The smaller elliptical just at the right border is NGC 5845 at mag 13.5.

Image data:
LRGB (380-80-80-80 min) total 10,3 h, north is up, seeing 0,8-1.2 arc-sec,
80cm f/7 Astrooptik Keller cassegrain, FLI PL 16803, 3 nm NB and RGB Astrodon Gen2 filters, Prompt 7 CTIO Chile
Processing: Johannes Schedler

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Last modified on Monday, 26 October 2015 21:43

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