UGC 10043
Serpens
RA
15 48 41
Dec
+21 52 10
Mag 14.4V
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You don’t often see a edge on galaxy with a round core. This makes UGC 10043 unique, most bulge cores in edge on galaxies are elongated or peanut shaped. I know of few EO galaxies with this structure.
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I did a little research on UGC 10043 and this is what I found. It was thought UGC 10043 was an edge polar ring type galaxy but from the paper Matthews (2004) they suggested that UGC 10043 round core was caused by a late merger event from a gas poor elliptical type galaxy. They also found a super faint dwarf MD 2004 (C)on the North end of UGC 10043 and suggested that it was interacting with it. Also from another later paper Paugirre (2009) they found that the disturbed Galaxy MCG +4-37-35 (B)on the South East end was interacting with UGC 10043 radio telescope showed a gas bridge between them.
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I have observed UGC 10043 several times over the years and revisited it again last week. At 488X UGC 10043 is a thin LSB glow it reminds me of NGC 891. The round core is easily seen as a ghostly glow. MCG +4-37-35 is seen as a faint patch that gets bigger with averted vision. The super faint dwarf was not seen. Also as a bonus just a field away to The East is the Hickson compact group #77.
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So if you get a chance give this peculiar edge on a try and as always
“Give it A go and Let us Know”
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