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NGC 6300
ESO101-G025
RA 17:16:58
Dec -62°49.2'
Galaxy |
h: “faint, very large, round, very
gradually very little brighter in the middle, 3', has several stars, one of 11th
mag; involved but being on a rich ground there appears no connection.” His
second observations reads: “faint, round or very slightly elongated, very
gradually little brighter in the middle, diam. in RA = 23 seconds, has in it 2
stars and a third, with two or more outlying.”
ASV Journal Vol 24 No 3 June 1971: “just
seen in 3-inch.”
Thornton Page (“Galaxies and the Universe”,
Chapter 13 - Binary Galaxies) includes this galaxy in the NGC 6300 Group.
Members include NGC 6300, NGC 6221, NGC 6215, NGC 6215A & IC 4662A. Possible
members include IC 4710, IC 4713 & IC 4714.
Included in the CCD-atlas of Ryder S.D. &
Dopita M.A. (1993) “An H-alpha Atlas of Nearby Southern Spiral Galaxies”
Astrophys.J.Suppl. 88, 415. They note that this galaxy lies at low galactic
latitude and has “two moderately bright foreground stars right next to the
nucleus . . most of the star-forming action seems to be taking place further out
in a ring some 2.5’ in diameter . . almost no star-formation activity
[takes place] inside of this ring. A number of short arms merge to form the ring
with a ragged outer edge, but a remarkably sharp inner edge. Comparison of NGC
6300 with other spirals in our atlas which exhibit both a strong stellar bar and
an inner ring (eg. NGC 1187, NGC 1398, NGC 5463 and NGC 6744) tentativbely
suggest a sequence whereby the greater the number of H II regions contained in
the ring, the fewer that go into delineating the bar itself.” |
