Object name: ARP186
Designation(s): ARP186,
Arp 186/NGC 1614 is one of the few highly studied galaxies in Arp\'s catalog. Oddly, the majority of his galaxies have received little attention. This one has been studied extensively at IR and radio frequencies as well as optical by the Hubble Space Telescope. It is thought to be the merger of two galaxies that is nearly complete. The tidal tails are still evident so the merger is very recent. The Hubble web page on this one tells its story so I\'ll refer you to that link for the details. http://hubblesite.org/image/2302/news_release/2008-16Arp classed it under Galaxies (not classifiable as S or E): Narrow filaments. It is located in Eridanus and is about 200 million light-years away. It was discovered by Lewis Swift on December 29, 1885.Besides the ordinary full image at 1\" per pixel I\'ve included a 2x enlargement of just the galaxy rotated to closely match the Hubble image so that west is at the top rather than north as the full image is oriented.The near edge on like galaxy south of Arp 186 is 2MFGC 03719. I find no distance estimate for it. There are two blue galaxies to the southwest of Arp 186. The one nearest to Arp 186 is PGC 146387 about 475 million light-years away, or over twice as far as Arp 186. The other one is 2MASX J04342393-0839138 also at about 475 million light years so those two are near each other. The gray galaxy above and a bit left of Arp 186 is PGC 1003489.Hubble imagehttp://www.spacetelescope.org/images/heic0810ax/Arp\'s imagehttp://ned.ipac.caltech.edu/level5/Arp/Figures/big_arp186.jpeg14\" LX200R @ F/10, R=4x10\' RGB=2x10\', STL-11000XM, Paramount ME
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Alternate Designation(s): 1AXG J043402-0835, 2MASX J04340002-0834445, 2MASXi J0434000-083444, 2XMM J043400.0-083444, 2XMMp J043400.0-083444, 6dF J0434000-083445, AKARI J0433599-083445, ARP 186, ARP186, CGPG 0431.6-0841, GSC 5314 01514, II Zw 015, IRAS 04315-0840, IRAS F04315-0840, ISOSS 023, ISOSS J04340-0834, LDCE 0330 NED001, LQAC 068-008 001, MCG -01-12-032, MRK 0617, NGC 1614, NGC 1614:[KCP2006] 1, NSA 133870, NVSS J043400-083445, PGC 015538, PMN J0434-0834, SDSS J043400.04-083445.0, [AHG2014] B136, [dML87] 606, [RRP2006] 11, [SLK2004] 0436, [TCW2007] 030, [VCV2001] J043359.8-083444, [VCV2006] J043359.8-083444,