Andrew Cooper
May 27, 2006    Gila, NM (map)
46cm f/4.5 Deep Violet

Small, bright core large with no distinct nucleus, no structure noted in halo, elongated 2:1 east-west, the area is a swarm of small galaxies, IC4329A visible 3' east, IC4327 is just 7' northwest, NGC5302 is 13' south, panning through the area just finds more and more small galaxies

Harold Corwin

IC 4329 is a bright southern galaxy not swept up by John Herschel. Ironically, he did find several other galaxies near it, so there are now NGC galaxies in the "IC 4329 Group."

A Seyfert galaxy near the IC object is now commonly called "IC 4329A". It is almost exactly edgewise to our line of sight, yet the Seyfert nucleus shines through. I classified this as "S0+ sp", so it may not have much dust to block the light of the nucleus.

Also see IC 953 for a curious historical sidelight on this group.

― IC Notes by Harold Corwin

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