UGC 7230

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Galaxy
Arp 260 / UGC 7230
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SDSS recording
SDSS recording
AladinLite
Constellation Berenike's hair
Position
equinoxJ2000.0 , epoch : J2000.0
Right ascension 12 h 13 m 38.7 s
declination + 16 ° 07 ′ 21 ″
Appearance
Morphological type DBL SYS  
Brightness  (visual) 14.5 mag
Angular expansion 1 ′ × 0.7 ′
Physical data
Redshift 0.023773 ± 0.000003  
Radial velocity (7127 ± 1) km / s  
Stroke distance
v rad  / H 0
(316 ± 22)  ·  10 6  ly
(97 ± 6.8)  Mpc 
history
Catalog names
UGC  7230 • CGCG  098-107 • MCG  + 03-31-077 • Arp  260 • VV  128 • KPG 326

Arp 260 = UGC 7230 is an interacting galaxy pair in the constellation Haar der Berenike. It is estimated to be 316 million light years 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 irregular clusters .

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 NASA / IPAC EXTRAGALACTIC DATABASE