UGC 5044
| Galaxy Arp 237 / UGC 5044 |
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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 27 m 44.0 s |
| declination | + 12 ° 17 ′ 12 ″ |
| Appearance | |
| Morphological type | DBL SYS |
| Brightness (visual) | 14.7 mag |
| Angular expansion | 1 ′, 1 × 1 ′, 0 |
| Physical data | |
| Redshift | 0.028993 |
| Radial velocity | 8692 km / s |
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Stroke distance v rad / H 0 |
(383 ± 27) · 10 6 ly (117.5 ± 8.2) Mpc |
| history | |
| Catalog names | |
| UGC 5044 • PGC 26842/26844 • CGCG 062-037 • MCG + 02-24-13 / 14 • IRAS 09250 + 1230 • Arp 237 • HCG 38B / C • HOLM 131A | |
Arp 237 = UGC 5044 is an interacting galaxy pair in the constellation Leo , which is around 383 million light years from the Milky Way . The galaxy pair is part of the Hickson 38 galaxy group . Halton Arp organized his catalog of unusual galaxies into groups according to purely morphological criteria. This galaxy belongs to the class galaxies showing signs of splitting .
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