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Image obtained between Nov 2012 and Jan 2013 with RCOS 14.5 inch and SBIG 11000.
Lum 14x25 min bin 1X1
RGB 6x20 min each bin 2X2
Acquisition: CCDSoft, The Sky 6
Processing: eXcalibrator, CCD Stack, Maxim DL, Photoshop CS3
NGC 750 and 751 compose a pair of interacting elliptical galaxies at about 235 MLY distance known as Dumbbell galaxies in Triangulum with a prominent bridge between them. There is a faint tidal tail which extends for at least 50,000-100,000 light years. The other dominant galaxy in the field is NGC 736 at about 198 MLY. There is very little information about this galaxy or what perturbed it to assume its shape with it prominent star shells. It appears to be interacting with NGC 738 but the somewhat nearby spiral NGC 740 appears to be unperturbed. Other major galaxies in the field are at roughly the same distance as NGC 750 and 736. The distances of other fainter galaxies were obtained from the NED database and photometric redshift data from SDSS and range from 1.25 to 4 BLY.