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NGC 864
Cetus
Penryn, California
August 2006
FS-128G (ag, ST-4)
ST-2000XM LRGB 15 minutes each

A small face-on spiral galaxy classified as SBc.  NGC 864 is an isolated galaxy yet has an intriguing perturbation in the gaseous envelope (Espada, et. al., 2004).