A New Voorwerp Candidate

On January 7, 2025, I stumbled upon an interesting pair of merging galaxies. It appears to be the late stages of the merger. This one is listed as no. 789 in Markarian’s List of UV-Excess Galaxies and no. 323 in Zwicky’s eighth list of Compact Galaxies. In the middle of the images from the DESI Legacy Imaging Surveys appears to be a large, green have, brightest in the r-band, and bright blue middle nuclei on both.

This object, hitherto new, does not appear to be listed on Jonkeren’s Voorwerpje Hunt candidate list, nor I could find it on any other list. I have provided the position derived from SIMBAD database. The position for 2025.0 is: α = 13 33 38.55, δ = 10 58 42.2.

https://www.legacysurvey.org//viewer/?ra=203.1004&dec=11.1059&layer=ls-dr10-grz&zoom=15

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