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).