20 questions (yes-no) again: What is the pair of astronomical objects (i.e, two objects closely spaced on their own length scale) I am thinking of?
# 1: No, they are not within our own galaxy
# 2: No, they are not within our Local group of galaxies.
# 3: No, none of the constituent parts is what an amateur astronomer would consider "prominent".
# 4: Yes, the two objects are galaxies.
# 5: Not, the galaxies do not have an informal name which is the name of an animal.
# 6: No, they are not NGC3395 and NGC3396
# 7: Yes, they are in the Northern celestial hemisphere
# 8: Not, tis not a winter constellation (IF you refer to observations in the evening
)
# 9: No, it is not a summer constellation as per
this list.
#10: Not, to my knowledge they are not members of Arp's Atlas of Peculiar Galaxies
#11: No, they are not in a circumpolar constellation (from Aachen).
#12: Yes, they are in a constellation named after a real animal.
#13: No, it is not a four-legged animal
#14: Yes, it is in big ol' Serpens (one of them, that is).