IC 3862
DSS image of IC 3862
Overlaid DSS image of IC 3862, 60' x 60' with north at top and west to the right

Aladin viewer for the region around IC 3862
MCG+06-28-039, Arp 265, UGC 8023, PGC 43844, SDSS J125353.12+360512.7

Type  Galaxy
Magnitude  14.5
Size  0.26' x 0.14' @ 100°
Right Ascension  12h 53' 53.0"  (2000)
Declination  36° 5' 13" N
Constellation  Canes Venatici
Description  vF, pS, dif, *15 att
Classification  Sd??
Observing Notes

Harold Corwin

IC 3862 = UGC 8023 = Arp 265 = VV 266 has an eccentric structure, much brighter on the southern end, noted by Wolf as an "att * 15." I suspect that it is a "ring" galaxy, similar to NGC 4774, NGC 7828/29, IC 298 (all of which see), and others. There is a small, red companion galaxy just to the southeast which may be -- if this is indeed a ring galaxy -- the nucleus, stripped of its disk, or the colliding galaxy which "destroyed" the spiral.
IC Notes by Harold Corwin
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IC 3862