Agreed, Glenc, NGC 986 is a
very interesting galaxy!!
Not as well known as the southern barred spirals NGC 2442 and NGC 1097, both of which are high enough in surface brightness to really see the overall structure very well in visual observations.
I characterized the morphology of NGC 986 in the following post, together with plenty of images at various wavelengths:
http://www.iceinspace.com.au/forum/s...hlight=NGC+986
cheers,
Robert
Another critical resource for the study of southern galaxies is the online version of the De Vaucouleurs Atlas of Galaxies:
http://bama.ua.edu/~rbuta/devatlas/imagedatabase.html
You can find an image of N986 in the supplementary non-atlas galaxies.
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And here is
yet another resource with a good image of NGC 986,
the online (scanned) version of the Carnegie Atlas of Galaxies, which was the best 'on paper' atlas of galaxies before the current generation of online image databases:
http://new.astronote.org/bbs/board.p...le=usergallery
Just click on the NGC and IC ranges, in the sidebar, to bring up not only the atlas images, but also the late and
very great Alan Sandage's expert commentary about each galaxy!!
These are extremely high quality scans of the non-electronic images in the original atlas.