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Old 15-07-2011, 10:26 PM
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Boxy bulges & etc

Hi Robert & All,

Thanks for all the fascinating information Robert!

Another couple of galaxies that fit this description are NGC 3628 (the well-known third member of the Leo Triplet with M66 & M65).

Not a particularly strong example, you can make-out a wide "X" superimposed on the centre of NGC 3628 that is a strongly disrupted spiral with a warped disc that clearly shows up with the bifurcated dust lane in the plane of the disc.

http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap050408.html

For the last day I've been racking my brain to remember the designation of another stronger example that I could recall from seeing a Hubble image but do you think I could remember the catalogue number? Well tonight it came to me -- it is ESO 597-36 which is also Hickson 87A in Capricornus. It too has a bifurcated lane in the plane of the disc.

http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap100706.html

ESO 597-36 is the brightest in the group (that's why it has the "A" designation) at mag 15.1 -- it is on my hit-list for a fortnight's time! The eg in Hickson 87 lie at about the 390 million ly mark.


Best,

Les D

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