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Caption: Fig. 22.
IC 676: large‐scale R‐band isophotes (a); ellipse fits (b, WIYN R); a close‐up of the bar region (c), which shows the "binary nuclei"; and a B−R color map of the same region (d, ﹩w=5﹩, color range = 0.92 mag, excluding outer regions). The bright, blue object on the NW edge of the bar is a foreground star.
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