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3C 71 (NGC 1068, M 77); z=0.003793

A well-known spiral galaxy, and the archetypal Seyfert 2, NGC 1068 is not truly ``radio-loud'' in terms of its radio luminosity. It has an obscured Sy 1 spectrum [Antonucci and Miller1985] and a compact (few arcsecond) radio jet aligned NNE-SSW. The NICMOS data were obtained as part of the NICMOS GTO time by [Thompson and Corbin1999]. The galaxy dwarfs the small NIC2 chip, and even the WFPC2 mosaic (PROPOSID's 5479, 5754). We were unable to produce an accurate photometric fit to this object, since we could not estimate the background flux. The spiral structure and active nucleus are readily apparent on the NICMOS image, as are numerous globular clusters. There is a vast literature on this source.



David James Elford Floyd
2007-07-28