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

A small face-on spiral galaxy classified as SBc, red shift distance is 71 Mly. 

NGC 864 is an isolated galaxy yet has an intriguing perturbation in the gaseous envelope (Espada, et. al., 2004).