UGC 8454
| Galaxy Arp 204 / UGC 8454 |
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| Image taken with the Hubble space telescope | |
| AladinLite | |
| Constellation | giraffe |
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Position equinox : J2000.0 , epoch : J2000.0 |
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| Right ascension | 13 h 23 m 05.9 s |
| declination | + 84 ° 30 ′ 18 ″ |
| Appearance | |
| Morphological type | DBL SYS |
| Brightness (B-band) | 15.6 mag |
| Angular expansion | 2.5 ′ × 0.5 ′ |
| Physical data | |
| Redshift | 0.021008 ± 0.000073 |
| Radial velocity | (6298 ± 22) km / s |
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Stroke distance v rad / H 0 |
(289 ± 20) x 10 6 ly (88.5 ± 6.2) Mpc |
| history | |
| Catalog names | |
| UGC 8454 • PGC 46729/46811 • CGCG 365-012, 366-004 • MCG + 14-6-24 / 25 • Arp 204 • VV 39 • VII Zw 514 | |
UGC 8454 = Arp 204 is an interacting pair of galaxies in the constellation Camelopardalis . The galaxy pair is about 289 million light years away from the Milky Way . Halton Arp organized his catalog of unusual galaxies into groups according to purely morphological criteria. This galaxy belongs to the class of galaxies with matter ejected from the nucleus .
Web links
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