Object of the Week June 5th, 2016 - NGC 4236

[Dragan]

The south end is also splotchy and at the very south tip are two very faint "stars" that seemed slightly fuzzy. These are also small HII knots, catalologued as NGC 4236:[HK83] 02 and 03. One or both of the knots also carry the designation VII Zw 446, described by Zwicky as a "blue patchy compact [galaxy]".

So Steve, 7ZW446 officially an HII region mislabeled by Zwicky, correct?

[Steve Gottlieb]

NED has multiple entries at similar positions -- one for VII Zw 446 as a compact galaxy and two for NGC 4236:[HK83] 02 and 03 as HII regions. But since Hodge & Kennicutt's classification was based on an H-alpha image of the galaxy, I'd say that's more likely.