| Description | Brief observation due to cloud conditions. This is another early observation that benefited from reprocessing prior to submission as an inverted image. The two, main elliptical galaxies, NGC 750 and 751 are evident enough, as are the filaments that connect them. In some ways, here, the limited light capture is helpful, as the two galactic centers are distinct, whereas they're blown out, and virtually merged in the original Arp image. The key "diverse filament" stretches to the NW (clockwise is West) to a dwarf galaxy. In the Arp image, you can resolve a spiral structure with an extended tail in the opposite direction. On my capture, this galaxy is barely a squiggle in the inverted image, and invisible in the color version. Nonetheless, while not nearly as distinct as in Arp's image, the NW trending filament is clearly visible in the inverted image. It is slightly visible as a brownish cast to the background in the color image, though admittedly I missed it in my original analysis. BTW, this is yet another pair of galaxies discovered by William Herschel in the late 18th century. |
