Red area

LEDA 1206110

The red area at 12:00 is also clearly visible in other surveys, doesn’t look like a star to me.

Very local high concentrated pocket of dust, background galaxy or something else?

SDSS and DECaLS DR5 images

enter image description here

http://skyserver.sdss.org/dr9/en/tools/explore/obj.asp?ra=214.18689786&dec=1.79698623

http://simbad.u-strasbg.fr/simbad/sim-id?bibyear1=-20&bibyear2=%24currentYear&submit=Display&Ident=%4011027771&Name=LEDA+1206110&bibdisplay=refsum&bibyear1=-20&bibyear2=%24currentYear #lab_bib

Posted January 13, 2018 10:58 PM

by CeciliaB

The red area is too oblong to be a star. As you say, it could be a background galaxy shining through a gap below the upper arm of the central galaxy. In the zoomed out DECaLS image one can see a few distant galaxies with the same colour as the red spot.

Posted January 14, 2018 10:09 AM

by Ghost_Sheep_SWR

Yeah does look like it, well probable overlap it is then.

Posted January 14, 2018 1:10 PM