Arp 126 is an interacting galaxy pair also known as UGC 1449. The pair are about 240 million light-years distant. The northern galaxy of the pair is classed as SBm pec while the lower as simply SBm. Arp included the pair under Elliptical and Elliptical-like Galaxies: close to and perturbing spirals. Arp made no notes in his catalog about this pair nor can I find much on it in the current literature.

There's a galaxy cluster NSCS J015907+031804 at about 4 billion light years just beyond the upper left corner. I suspect the orange galaxies seen in that corner around the 3 bright stars
are likely members of the cluster.

Other than that there's little information on the rest of the field. Though researching the galaxy pair I found a house for sale at 126 Arp Avenue in Cheyenne, Wyoming. I wonder how dark and steady the skies are there?

Blue galaxy to the upper left UGC 1454, a SBm barred spiral at about 150 million light-years.

These are located in Pisces. I took this image December of last year and processed it in March but somehow lost the file on the hard drive until I was reorganizing my Arp collection and ran across it. One benefit of two months of cloudy weather. I wonder if there are others like it lurking in some dark corner of my drive. It appears I started to take it and was clouded out twice before getting any color then had a good third try. Each was in a separate directory. I ended up combining all usable luminosity images from the three nights. Thus, it has more data than usual though thanks to the clouds I can't say it helped much.

Arp's image:
http://nedwww.ipac.caltech.edu/level...ig_arp126.jpeg
No SDSS or HST images

My image with less compression
http://www.spacebanter.com/attachmen...tid=2663&stc=1

14" LX200R @ f/10, L=9x10' RGB=2x10'x3, STL-11000XM, Paramount ME

Rick

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Rick, I glad the clouds did you some good. This is a nice image. Your processing is always very clean.

And I lucked out last night, the clouds cleared at 10pm.

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Hello Rick:
I like your photographies, always show the sky very, very deep.
A true delight.
Many greetings
Cesar

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