[Stevec35 (Steve)]

Originally Posted by SkyViking

Nice one Steve, I think I can see some shells there. Maybe it's a merger where the cores have only just recently settled in the centre - there doesn't seem to be any intruder galaxies nearby.

Thanks Rolf. As far as I know the shells aren't caused by intruder galaxies. In fact I don't think anyone is 100% sure what causes them. By all means someone correct me on this if I'm wrong.

Originally Posted by Shiraz

NED has a few links to images - probably not as good as yours though.
http://ned.ipac.caltech.edu/cgi-bin/...objname=ic5105

Thanks Ray. I forgot about NED. Basically there's nothing deep enough there though. According to my UK colleague no one has ever done a deep shot of this one before.