NGC 1614
| Galaxy NGC 1614 |
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| Photo from the Hubble Space Telescope | |
| AladinLite | |
| Constellation | Eridanus |
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Position equinox : J2000.0 , epoch : J2000.0 |
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| Right ascension | 04 h 33 m 59.8 s |
| declination | -08 ° 34 ′ 44 ″ |
| Appearance | |
| Morphological type | SB (s) c / HII: / Sy2 / LIRG |
| Brightness (visual) | 12.9 mag |
| Brightness (B-band) | 13.6 mag |
| Angular expansion | 1.3 ′ × 0.9 ′ |
| Position angle | 142 ° |
| Surface brightness | 12.9 mag / arcmin² |
| Physical data | |
| Redshift | 0.015938 ± 0.000033 |
| Radial velocity | 4778 ± 10 km / s |
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Stroke distance v rad / H 0 |
(209 ± 15) x 10 6 ly (64.2 ± 4.5) Mpc |
| history | |
| discovery | Lewis A. Swift |
| Discovery date | December 29, 1885 |
| Catalog names | |
| NGC 1614 • PGC 15538 • MCG -01-12-032 • IRAS 04315-0840 • 2MASX J04340002-0834445 • Arp 186 • Mrk 617 • II Zw 15 • LDCE 330 NED001 | |
NGC 1614 = Arp 186 is a bar-spiral galaxy with an active galaxy core of the Hubble type SBc / P in the constellation Eridanus in the southern sky . It is estimated to be 209 million light years from the Milky Way and about 85,000 light years in diameter . NGC 1614 is in the final stages of the merger of two galaxies.
Halton Arp organized his catalog of unusual galaxies into groups according to purely morphological criteria. This galaxy belongs to the class of narrow filament galaxies .
The object was discovered on December 29, 1885 by the American astronomer Lewis A. Swift .
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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