De Vaucouleurs Atlas Type: Sb sp

Filter: B

Telescope: WIYN 3.5-m
North up , East left
Field Dimensions: 6.7 x 6.3 arcminutes

RC3 Type: Sbp sp
RSA Type: Sbc
Surface Brightness Range Displayed: 20.0-26.0 mag per square arcsec
Absolute Blue Magnitude: -20.1

De Vaucouleurs Atlas Description:

This complex edge-on has a bright bulge and a very thick, asymmetric dust layer. Only the inner parts of the galaxy are covered in the Atlas images. As for several others shown, the main part of the dust layer is bluer than the stellar disk, probably due in part to scattered light from young blue stars in the disk and to star-forming areas of low extinction. The bulge shows some boxiness and could represent a bar.