Arp 78

Aries
Category: Small, high surface brightness comp.

NGC 772. A galaxy with almost asymmetric arms. Very peculiar. A faint outer arm at lower left can be seen. An interacting companion is at lower right, NGC770. (A quasar 0156+187 at mag 19.4 is close to the nucleus.)

Mag 11.1
Type Sb

Redshift is 0.0082 (2472km/s)

Photo: 98-11-20, 12" f/7, 480 sec

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