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Hi greg,
I suppose the interest of this object is the element of mystery, rather than its brightness and size. The DSS image I attached is very poor....it ought to be possible to do much better with a CCD camera.
I ransacked numerous extragalactic databases, and usually found nothing much about this pair of galaxies. This is quite unusual these days, even for southern objects.
The whole point of thinking about this object or imaging it..... is that there may be nobody on earth who knows, beforehand, what can be seen in an image of this object!
(I would put my money on there being an interaction of the spiral with some small galaxies near it. This is a very distant object. )
I should really continue my series of articles about weird and wonderful southern galaxies, as there are a lot of strange ones about that have had little attention so far!
(6 hours per day of thinking about galaxies, and I have less time then ever)
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