UGC 8454

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Galaxy
Arp 204 / UGC 8454
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Image taken with the Hubble space telescope
Image taken with the Hubble space telescope
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Constellation giraffe
Position
equinoxJ2000.0 , epoch : J2000.0
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  
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

Individual evidence

  1. a b c d e NASA / IPAC EXTRAGALACTIC DATABASE