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Originally Posted by Placidus
Beautiful and fascinating, Rick.
What do you think causes the apparent sharp almost concave edge just below the two main ellipticals?
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Thanks, Mike. The sharp edge of the shared halo around the interacting galaxies, NGC5353 and NGC5354, is a bit of a mystery. I have seen it in several other images so I'm pretty sure it is real but I can't find any explanation in the literature.
Both galaxies are normally classified as S0. NGC5354 has a minor axis dust lane which I can just make out. There's a paper which suggests it should be classified as a dustlane ETG.
I'll PM madbadgalaxyman and see if he is willing to comment...
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Originally Posted by Paul Haese
Nice work Rick. Composition is very effective, colour is great, superb detail.
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Thanks very much. Paul.