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Object name: NGC1275

Designation(s): NGC1275, PERSEUS_CLUSTER,

The Perseus Galaxy Cluster is one of the richest nearby galaxy clusters known. It is about 240 million light-years distant and is the Abell 426 Galaxy Cluster. It consists of over 1000 galaxies. It is anchored by NGC 1275 a huge Narrow Line Radio Galaxy classified as a Peculiar cD/S0? galaxy due to all the emission line features it contains. This is because it really is two superimposed galaxies, one a dusty spiral seen against the massive elliptical galaxy. Since the elliptical is brighter than the spiral's arms they are seen as dark features against the spiral. Well, they are in better images than mine. Unfortunately, this is a very early image of mine when I was doing everything wrong in my beginner's ignorance. I really need to retake this one, something I keep saying but never seems to happen.

The annotated image only annotates NGC and a selected PGC galaxies out of 124 in the image with redshift data. I limited the annotation because finding places to put the annotation was difficult enough with the few I did include. Doesn't help that my ignorance results in the galaxy cores appearing saturated making seeing the labels impossible when they overwrite a galaxy or star. This was due to processing ignorance. I didn't reprocess it as the data is poor, to begin with. I suggest that you look elsewhere for images of this one. Below is a listing of the annotated galaxies from west to east (right to left) along with discovery data and an occasional comment.

NGC 1260 S0/a: discovered by Guillaume Bigourdan on October 19, 1884.
NGC 1264 SBa-b Discovered by Guillaume Bigourdan on October 19, 1884.
NGC 1267 E+ Discovered by Heinrich d'Arrest on February 14, 1864 A star in our galaxy makes the core appear much brighter than it really is.
NGC 1268 SAB(rs)b: Discovered by Heinrich d'Arrest on February 14, 1864.
NGC 1270 E Discovered by Heinrich d'Arrest on February 14, 1864.
NGC 1271 SB0? Discovered by Guillaume Bigourdan on November 14, 1884.
NGC 1272 E+ Discovered by Heinrich d'Arrest on February 14, 1884.
NGC 1273 SA(r)0^0^ Discovered by Heinrich d'Arrest on February 14, 1884.
NGC 1274 E3 Discovered by Lawrence Parsons on December 4, 1875.
NGC 1275 Also known as Perseus A due to its strong radio emission cD/S0? Discovered by William Herschel on October 17, 1786 It isn't in either H400 observing program which surprised me.
NGC 1276 Is not in the annotated image as it is a pair of stars west and a bit north of NGC 1281 near the top of my frame. John Dreyer himself is responsible for this mistake on December 12, 1876.
NGC 1277 S0+ pec was discovered by Lawrence Parsons on December 4, 1875.
NGC 1278 E pec Heinrich d'Arrest on February 14, 1884.
NGC 1279 S/S0? was discovered by John Dreyer on December 12, 1876. He got this one right.
NGC 1281 E5 Discovered by John Dreyer on December 12, 1876.
NGC 1282 E: Discovered by Guillaume Bigourdan on October 23, 1884
NGC 1283 E1 Discovered by Guillaume Bigourdan on October 23, 1884.

14" LX200R @ f/10, L=6x5' R=2x5' G=3x5'x3 B=2x7', STL-11000XM, Paramount ME

Related Designation(s):

0FGL J0320.0+4131, 1ES 0316+413, 1FGL J0319.7+4130, 1H 0316+413AB, 1RXS J031947.4+413052, 22W 043, 2FGL J0319.8+4130, 2MASS J03194815+4130421, 2MASX J03194823+4130420, 2MASXi J0319482+413042, 2PBC J0319.7+4129, 2XMM J031948.1+413042, 3C 084, 3FGL J0319.8+4130, 4C +41.07, 4U 0316+41, 6C B031628.8+411940, 87GB 031629.0+411957, 87GB[BWE91] 0316+4119, ABELL 0426, ABELL 0426:[BM99] 270, ABELL 0426:[CG99] 001, ABELL 0426:[HDH2012] BCG, ABELL 0426:[LO95] 0316+413, ABELL 0426:[ZBO89] O7, ABELL 0426:[ZBO89] R7, AKARI J0319480+413040, B3 0316+413D, BZU J0319+4130, CGCG 0316.5+4120, CGCG 540-103, CGRaBS J0319+4130, CIZA J0319.7+4130, CRATES J0319+4130, CRATES J031948.16+413042.1, CTA 022, DA 097, GALEX J031948.1+413044, GB6 J0319+4130, HDCE 0219, HDCE 0219 NED081, ICRF J031948.1+413042, ICRF-Ext1 J0319+4130, IERS B0316+413, IRAS 03164+4119, IRAS F03164+4119, ISOSS J03198+4130, JVAS J0319+4130, LDCE 0224 NED202, LGG 088:[G93] 010, LHE 084, LQAC 049+041 007, MASIV J0319+4130, MAXI J0319+415, MCG +07-07-063, MCXC J0319.7+4130, MRK 1505, MRK 9013, NEWPS_5yr_5s 074, NEWPS_5yr_5s_15 073, NGC 1275, NGC 1275 Cluster, NGC1275, NRAO 0132, NSA 133314, NVGRC J031948.1+413042, NVSS J031948+413042, OE +427, PBC J0319.7+4129, Perseus A, PERSEUS CLUSTER, PGC 012429, QVW5 J031949+4131, QVW7 J031949+413122, RGB J0319+415, RX J0319.8+4131, RXC J0319.7+4130, S4 0316+41, SA 0426-001, SAXWFC J0319.8+4131.0, SCL 040 NED03, SDSS J031948.15+413042.1, SSTSL2 J031948.13+413042.5, SSTSL2 J031948.17+413042.1, SWIFT J0319.7+4132, SWIFT J0319.8+4130, TeV J0319+415, TXS 0316+413, UGC 02669, UITBOC 0315, UZC J031948.2+413041, VLSS J0319.8+4130, VRO 41.03.02, VSOP J0319+4130, WBL 097-021, WMAP 094, WMAP J0319+4131, WMAP J031945+4131, WMAP J031946+4131, WMAP3-NEWPS-5S 039, XSS J03198+4128, ZwCl 0303.0+4125 NED02, [AHG2014] B130, [B2011] 042, [BTM2013] 0173, [CW2008] J031952+413035, [DFD2009] J0319+4130, [dML87] 598, [HRT2007] J031947+413042, [JBB2007] J031948.16+413042.1 , [KRL2007] 030, [KWP81] 0316+41, [LLK2008] 0316+413, [LTS2012] F03197+4130, [MBI96] 0316+41, [MGL2009] 0362, [MO2001] J031948.3+413041.3, [MSU2014] J031948+413042, [RRP2006] 10, [SFA2004] J031948.17+413042.5 , [SLK2004] 0382, [SRM2005] J031948.16+413042.1 , [VCV2001] J031948.2+413042, [VCV2006] J031948.2+413042, [VE75] CL 0316+41, [WB92] 0316+4119, [WMR2009] 022,