Unidentified galaxy near M51

[Starwiz]

One from a couple of imaging sessions last week.  

Does anyone know what the unidentified galaxy is?

John

[Oddsocks]

On 01/04/2017 at 17:43, Starwiz said:

Does anyone know what the unidentified galaxy is?

 

 

 

[Guest]

Hi John,

Just upload your picture into http://nova.astrometry.net/upload

and the the rest will be done automatically, incl. identifying the unknown Unidentified galaxy near M51.. the service is free of charge

and I did use your picture to solve it,, click on the link to see the result..

 

http://nova.astrometry.net/user_images/1565558#annotated

 

Cheers

 

Martin

[Knighty2112]

Yep, Skysafari shows this as IC4263 too.  

[Starwiz]

Excellent!

Thanks very much all!

John

[Stub Mandrel]

There are two extended galaxies just next to M51's smaller companion NGC5195, Rodd's recent image shows both of them, one of them is just visible in my M51.

I've circled it in yellow AND done an extra stretch to exaggerate it.

[Starwiz]

37 minutes ago, Stub Mandrel said:

There are two extended galaxies just next to M51's smaller companion NGC5195, Rodd's recent image shows both of them, one of them is just visible in my M51.

I've circled it in yellow AND done an extra stretch to exaggerate it.

Amazing!  And I've zoomed in to find them in my image too.

I find it fascinating to think that the light has been travelling since the time when the very first dinosaurs walked the earth!

John

 

[Stub Mandrel]

It's horribly smug and elitist but I get a kick out of photographing things most people don't even know exist!

[Starwiz]

4 minutes ago, Stub Mandrel said:

It's horribly smug and elitist but I get a kick out of photographing things most people don't even know exist!

I know what you mean.  I get a kick out of it when I send someone an image with an explanation and they come back and tell me that the narrative has just fried their mind 

[tomato]

I was asking the same question about IC4277 on another thread, thanks for the Identification.

i don't now if the up keep of these catalogues is done automatically or manually, but if it's the latter, they must have had kittens when the HST deepfield images started rolling in.?