Object name: ARP290Designation(s): ARP290, IC0195, IC0196, ARP 290 is classed by Arp as Group Character: Wind Effects. It does appear "wind blown". The small galaxy is IC 195, the wind blown one is IC 196. Both have a redshift consistent with a distance of about 155 million light years and are magnitude 14 and 13.6 respectively so within range of a 10" scope from a dark site. They are located in Aries.
IC 195 is classed as SAB0 while IC 196 is SBb. Both were discovered by Lewis Swift on October 20, 1889
The only somewhat blue galaxy in the image is SDSS J020352.74+144140.0 SE of Arp 290 3 minutes, just west of the nearby asteroid trail. It is 740 million light years away yet still somewhat blue. The little vertical galaxy below it is 2MASX J02035353+1440074 and IR galaxy at 740 million light years.
The tiny vertical galaxy above IC 196 is 421 million light years distant so not related to Arp 290.
Most interesting to me is 2MASX J02032466+1441521, another strong IR emitting galaxy. It is the "tiny" face on spiral to the west-southwest of Arp 290. It stands out for being so red yet being a spiral. It certainly isn't a tiny galaxy as it is 1.7 billion light years distant. It has to be one heck of a big galaxy. Is the red due to galactic reddening.
There are 3 asteroids in the image. The bright one near Arp 270 is (113736) 2002 TD155. Below it near the very bottom of the image is much fainter 2008 UU198. It was discovered only days before I took this image, though I didn't know this at the time. As indicated by its designation it was the 4970th asteroid discovered after October 15th and before November 1. These automatic systems are finding them rapidly! I took this image Oct. 31 UT. The third asteroid is directly west of the second and a bit fainter. It is 2003 WC175. So while fainter it was found almost 5 years earlier. It is faint as it is estimated, by the minor planet center, to be magnitude 19.7.
SDSS: http://astronomerica.awardspace.com/SDSS-3/IC195.php
Arp's image of this pair with the 200" Hale telescope is at: http://ned.ipac.caltech.edu/level5/Arp/Figures/big_arp290.jpeg
14" LX200R @ f/10, L=4x10' RGB=2x10'x3, STL-11000XM, Paramount ME Related Designation(s):2MASS J02034459+1442333, 2MASS J02034979+1444206, 2MASX J02034457+1442334, 2MASX J02034980+1444204, 2MFGC 01575, ARP 290, ARP 290 NED01, ARP 290 NED02, ARP290, ASK 043626.0, ASK 043634.0, CGCG 0201.0+1428, CGCG 0201.1+1430, CGCG 438-019, CGCG 438-020, IC 0195, IC 0196, IC0195, IC0196, IRAS F02011+1430, KPG 053, KPG 053A, KPG 053B, LDCE 0133 NED002, LDCE 0133 NED003, MCG +02-06-017, MCG +02-06-018, NFGS 022, NSA 008954, NSA 154842, PGC 007846, PGC 007856, SDSS J020344.59+144233.4, SDSS J020344.60+144233.4, SDSS J020344.60+144233.5, SDSS J020344.61+144233.4, SDSS J020349.78+144420.9, SDSS J020349.79+144420.8, SDSS J020349.79+144420.9, SDSS J020349.80+144420.9, SSTSL2 J020344.59+144233.4, SSTSL2 J020349.76+144422.3, UGC 01555, UGC 01556, USGC U097 NED01, USGC U097 NED03, UZC J020344.5+144232, UZC J020349.7+144420, VV 309, VV 309a, VV 309b, [M98j] 035, [M98j] 035 NED01, [M98j] 035 NED02, | |