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Object name: NGC6691Designation(s): NGC6691, NGC 6691 is a spiral galaxy located in Draco some 260 million light-years from us. Arp has a category in his atlas for 3 armed spirals. All three he included are really two-armed spirals with a major spur off one to make the third arm. Thus, I include this one as falling into the same category. It has two main arms coming off the bar and a large spur overlaying one of those arms that first goes north on the western side of the galaxy they a second spur comes off it going northeast. Much smaller spurs are seeing coming off the other arm. The galaxy to the south is listed in a note at NED as being a companion. This field is so poorly studied it has no catalog entry in NED. All other galaxies in the image that NED identifies are from the 2MASS IR catalog which only picks up galaxies bright in 2 micron IR radiation. The companion apparently doesn't have enough. It was discovered by Lewis Swift on August 16, 1884. Related Designation(s):2MASS J18391224+5538303, 2MASX J18391226+5538305, 2MIG 2532, AKARI J1839125+553827, CGCG 1838.3+5535, CGCG 279-022, IRAS 18382+5535, IRAS F18382+5535, MCG +09-30-031, NGC 6691, NGC6691, NVSS J183912+553828, PGC 062202, SSTSL2 J183912.20+553830.4, UGC 11318, UZC J183912.3+553830, |