NGC 2914
| Galaxy NGC 2914 |
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| SDSS recording | |
| AladinLite | |
| Constellation | lion |
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Position equinox : J2000.0 , epoch : J2000.0 |
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| Right ascension | 09 h 34 m 02.8 s |
| declination | + 10 ° 06 ′ 31 ″ |
| Appearance | |
| Morphological type | SB (s) from / LINER |
| Brightness (visual) | 13.3 mag |
| Brightness (B-band) | 14.1 mag |
| Angular expansion | 0.9 ′ × 0.6 ′ |
| Position angle | 12 ° |
| Surface brightness | 12.5 mag / arcmin² |
| Physical data | |
| Affiliation | WBL 226 LGG 177 |
| Redshift | 0.010537 ± 0.000003 |
| Radial velocity | (3159 ± 1) km / s |
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Stroke distance v rad / H 0 |
(136 ± 9) · 10 6 ly (41.6 ± 2.9) Mpc |
| history | |
| discovery | Wilhelm Herschel |
| Discovery date | March 3, 1786 |
| Catalog names | |
| NGC 2915 • UGC 5096 • PGC 27185 • ESO 37-003 • CGCG 063-010 • MCG + 02-25-006 • 2MASX J09340276 + 1006315 • Arp 137 • GC 1871 • H III 513 • h 3174 • GALEX MSC J093402.85 +100632.0 • AM 0926-762 • LDCE 655 NED004 | |
NGC 2914 = Arp 137 is a bar-spiral galaxy with an active nucleus of the Hubble type SBab in the constellation Leo on the ecliptic . It is estimated to be 136 million light years from the Milky Way and about 40,000 light years in diameter.
In the same area of the sky are u. a. the galaxies NGC 2911 , NGC 2913 , NGC 2919 .
Halton Arp organized his catalog of unusual galaxies into groups according to purely morphological criteria. This galaxy belongs to the class of elliptical galaxies with emanating material (Arp catalog) .
The object was discovered on March 3, 1786 by the astronomer Wilhelm Herschel .
literature
- Jeff Kanipe and Dennis Webb: The Arp Atlas of Peculiar Galaxies - A Chronicle and Observer's Guide , Richmond 2006, ISBN 978-0-943396-76-7
Web links
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