Continuing with my Arp Galaxy series here is Arp 205. Like Arp 206 I posted earlier Arp 205 is also classed under "Material Ejected From Nucleus". It is also known as NGC 3448 with the nearby, very faint spiral cataloged as "companion" by Arp and UGC 6013 by everyone else. I assume the "Material ejected From Nucleus" is the large bright lump somewhat disconnected from the galaxy at the upper left rather than the tidal arms. Radial velocity puts NGC 3448 at 68 million light years and UGC 6016 at 74 million light years. These distances are likely somewhat wrong as the redshift of both has been altered by their passage by each other.

Above and a slight bit right of NGC 3448 is the galaxy cluster ZwCl 1051.4+5440. It has two major elliptical galaxies but only one, the one on the left, has attracted a following. The one on the right has only one obvious nearby companion. At the very lower left corner a few outlying members of another cluster ZwCl 1053.4+5427 are seen. The former is about 2.1 billion light years away light travel time while the latter has yet to have its distance measured that I can find. Just not enough grad students to do the work it would seem. The entire field is full of faint, very distant galaxies most of which have not been measured for their distance.

A bright star toward the upper right just off frame sent in a nasty flare.

Full size image with less compression is at:
http://www.spacebanter.com/attachmen...2&d=1214086409

Rick

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Great detail and color in this peculiar galaxy. And lots of nice background fuzzies too.

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Hi Rick, Another new one for me. your info on the subjects mentioned are very informative better then the text books. The image itself is just outstanding showing such fine details and very distant objects with such clarity. Thanks again on the info and the great images. Clear Skies my friend