Arp 273

Andromeda
Category: Group char, connected arms

Wow!. A very nice and beautiful example of two interacting spirals with tidal effects. The upper one is UGC01810. It shows signs of a ring-like structure and weak ruptured knots on the original Arp photo below. The lower galaxy is UGC01813. The bright star is at magnitude 8.1.

01810: Mag 13.4 T(de V.): SA(s)b pec Type (Hubble): S(b)

01813: Mag 15.0 T(de V.): SB(s)a pec Type (Hubble): SB

Redshift is (0.025227) (7563km/s)

Photo: 2001-10-19, 12" f/10, 640 sec

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Original Arp 66 photo.