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IC 2233 / NGC 2537
Lynx
Penryn, California
January 2007
FS-128  (ag, ST-4)
ST-2000XM LRGB 15  minute subs 

IC 2233 is the edge on spiral at upper right.  Classified as SBcd and referred to as a super thin galaxy.  Mathews (2005) reports a vertical neutral hydrogen component with complex kinematics and possible evidence of component orbiting the disk at ~45 degrees.  Distance is approximately 35 Mlyr.

NGC 2537 is the dwarf irregular galaxy at lower left.  Studies cannot find a reason for it's morphology.  It is not interacting with NGC 2537A (faint galaxy at center left).  NGC 2537 is a approximately 21 Mlyr.