Arp 283 consists of two interacting galaxies, NGC 2798 right and NGC 2799. Arp classed them under Group Character: Infall and attraction. He adds this comment: "Arc of barely resolved knots curves into nucleus of larger galaxy". It does appear the interaction has created huge tidal plumes on NGC 2798 and has warped the disk of NGC 2799 into a sort arc. Unfortunately the night I imaged this wasn't very good with below average seeing and transparency so this image is well below what I'd have liked. Still you can see a hint of the curve of NGC 2799's arc toward NGC 2798. This could be just a perspective illusion.

NGC 2798 is classed as a SBa or SBb galaxy depending on who your read. In any case it is classed as a barred spiral. Its core seems so distorted I don't see much of a bar and the spiral arms seem to come from nothing rather then end of a bar as you'd expect. Their beginning ends are 180 degrees apart as you'd normally see with a barred spiral. The interaction has obviously greatly altered the galaxy.

It shows no new stars in visual light but IR data shows massive star formation going on hidden behind extensive dust. The core region contains most of this star formation. The spiral arms are quite red, rather than blue. I can't tell if this is real or scattered dust has absorbed much of the bluer light letting only red through.

NGC 2799 is seen nearly edge on. Most sources consider it a SB galaxy, that is a barred spiral, but a few consider it as Sc. Considering it is edge on and highly distorted this is an argument that I doubt can be settled.

It appears that if NGC 2799 is in front of NGC 2798 that the dust lane in NGC 2798 is really dust pulled off the end of NGC 2799. Otherwise it is rather hard to explain I'd think.

The pair appear to be about 90 million light-years away.

Actually this is a three galaxy system. The spiral below them, UGC 4904, shows the same red shift as the two others. It too shows strong signs of interaction. In fact it resembles M64 as being a "black eye" type galaxy though in this case is more a "reddish brown eye" in my image. The core also seems made up of several condensations with only a rough indication of spiral structure. It too is classed as a barred spiral though it appears too chaotic for me to see that structure. It may show at other wavelengths however. In any case it appears all three have interacted with each other.

On the far left a bit above center are two galaxies, the western being fainter. It is 2MASX J09185002+4200433 an IR galaxy about 560 million light years away. The other is 2MASX J09185523+4200133 also at about 560 million light-years.

Half way back west toward Arp 283 and below a bright orange star near a brighter blue one is the small nearly vertical galaxy SDSS J091808.53+420020.8 at 880 million light years. Continuing west and up a bit past a white star is the somewhat larger appearing galaxy SDSS J091756.39+420054.1 at the same distance so they form another pair. Just below it and a bit left is the star-like galaxy SDSS J091756.99+420039.3 but I have no red shift data on it.

Starting at the lower left corner move along the bottom, under a star then pass over a much fainter one and you come to a small galaxy most of which is in the frame with only its very south end cropped. This is SDSS J091831.58+414533.0 at 1.3 billion light years. Up and to its right is a somewhat larger redder and brighter galaxy. It is 2MASX J09182805+4146242 at 1.8 billion light years. It obviously is a really big galaxy to be magnitude 17.5 at that great distance.

There are other galaxies and quasars in the image. The above galaxies and the other distant objects are shown in the annotated image with their distance in billions of light years per NED using their 5 year WMAP data.

My image has several very distant quasars so I've also attached an annotated image point these out and the distances to some of the other galaxies in the image.

This one is located in Lynx. Arp's image is at:
http://nedwww.ipac.caltech.edu/level...ig_arp283.jpeg

14" LX200R @ f/10, L=4x10/, RGB=2x10'x3, STL-11000XM, Paramount ME

Image with less compression:
http://www.spacebanter.com/attachmen...tid=2633&stc=1

Rick

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Awesome detail and color for such distant galaxies

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