Object name: WBL179
Designation(s): WBL179, IC0504, IC0505, IC0506,
WBL 179 is in a field jam-packed with galaxies. The 7 brightest make up the WBL 179 group. 5 of which are about 400 million light-years distant and 2 are half that distance. This appears to be part of a much larger cluster, ZwCl 0820.6+0436 which is just over a degree in diameter and contains 163 galaxies. While NED puts it at about 400 million light-years distant the vast majority of the galaxies in my image and out to a larger area cover a wide range of distances. Many out to 1.2 billion light-years. NED lists a couple clusters at that distance, WHL J082258.9+041756 with 29 members and SDSS-C4-DR3 1283 with 23. Their positions differ by only 2\" of arc so are likely referring to the same group, just defined slightly differently. Many other lesser groups are listed at NED that likely are subgroups of these. As usual, I picked up a few very distant galaxies but most fall within 1.3 billion light-years. The result is one of the densest annotated images I\'ve made as I included all NED had a redshift value for and were bright enough to survive JPG compression. What drew me to the field is that the brighter galaxies and stars seem arranged in an oval shape. This is lost in the annotated image but shows well in the full image. Our brains are designed to see patterns, though which ones seem a personal thing. Jesus in toast looked like Frank Zappa to me and I\'m yet to see the \"Running Chicken\". Still, the oval struck me so it went on the to-do list. That large number of fainter galaxies were gravy.The field is located in northwestern Hydra. All three IC galaxies were discovered by Lewis Swift on March 8, 1888. Apparently, the others were too faint for his telescope. He was using the 16\" Clark refractor at Warner Observatory, Rochester, New York. It was later moved to Echo Mountain in California. Some of the other galaxies seem bright enough for a 16\" refractor so how he missed them I don\'t understand. Though likely the expansion of Rochester was hurting his skies. He moved it to California in 1893, 5 years after finding these galaxies. 14\" LX200R @ f/10, L=4x10\' RGB=2x10\', STL-11000XM, Paramount ME
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Alternate Designation(s): 1RXS J082321.4+042231, 2MASS J08224119+0415449, 2MASS J08232166+0422209, 2MASS J08233072+0417580, 2MASX J08224116+0415443, 2MASX J08232169+0422207, 2MASX J08233072+0417587, ASK 258494.0, ASK 258496.0, CGCG 032-008, CGCG 032-015, CGCG 032-016, CGCG 0820.0+0425, CGCG 0820.7+0432, CGCG 0820.8+0428, GALEXASC J082330.67+041800.3 , HDCE 0481 NED004, HDCE 0483 NED003, IC 0504, IC 0505, IC 0506, IC0504, IC0505, IC0506, LDCE 0567 NED004, LDCE 0570 NED003, LQAC 125+004 006, MCG +01-22-005, MCG +01-22-008, MCG +01-22-009, Mr18:[BFW2006] 07320 NED07, Mr18:[BFW2006] 07320 NED11, Mr19:[BFW2006] 14838 NED04, Mr19:[BFW2006] 14839 NED04, Mr20:[BFW2006] 24342 NED03, Mr20:[BFW2006] 24347 NED04, NFP J082241.2+041545, NFP J082321.7+042221, NFP J082330.7+041758, NPM1G +04.0158, NSA 046722, NSA 046723, NSA 135037, NVSS J082241+041544, NVSS J082321+042221, PGC 023495, PGC 023528, PGC 023536, RX J0823.3+0422, RX J0823.3+0422:[BEV98] 002, SDSS J082241.19+041544.7, SDSS J082321.66+042220.8, SDSS J082321.66+042220.9, SDSS J082321.67+042220.9, SDSS J082330.72+041758.2, SSTSL2 J082321.67+042221.1, UGC 04372, UGC 04382, USGC U175 NED02, USGC U175 NED03, USGC U176 NED04, UZC J082241.2+041544, UZC J082321.7+042221, UZC J082330.7+041757, UZC-CG 072 NED03, WBL 179, WBL 179-001, WBL 179-006, WBL 179-007, WBL179, ZwCl 0820.6+0436:[CAE99], [BFW2006] J125.84028+04.37247 , [BFW2006] J125.87803+04.29950 , [DZ2015] 564-01, [DZ2015] 568-01, [TTL2012] 447191, [TTL2012] 447193,