Observation by David Strange: Discordant Redshifts in NGC4319 and Mark...

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David Strange

Observer

David Strange

Observed

2025 May 19 - 23:34

Uploaded

2025 May 20 - 23:13

Objects

NGC4319

Equipment
  • RC10
  • ASI533MC
  • L-Pro filter
Exposure

30 x 120s

Location

Salcombe Regis

Target name

NGC4319

Title

Discordant Redshifts in NGC4319 and Markarian 205

About this image

This image shows the quasar Markarian 205 embedded in the disc of the galaxy NGC4319. I last imaged this object in 1998, and that image was used by Halton Arp in his publication Catalogue of Discordant Redshift Associations. It showed a "bridge" of material linking the quasar and galaxy which was an impossibility since the quasar and galaxy showed discordant redshifts. This latest image with better optics deeper exposure and a more sensitive detector appears to show that the "bridge" is no longer apparent but was simply an imaging artifact.

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