IC 1259
| Galaxy IC 1259 |
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| SDSS recording | |
| AladinLite | |
| Constellation | Dragon |
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Position equinox : J2000.0 , epoch : J2000.0 |
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| Right ascension | 17 h 27 m 25.8 s |
| declination | + 58 ° 31 ′ 09 ″ |
| Appearance | |
| Morphological type | A: S? B: S0 pec? |
| Brightness (visual) | A: 13.5 mag B: 14.9 mag |
| Brightness (B-band) | A: 14.3 mag B: 15.9 mag |
| Angular expansion | A: 0.3 x 0.3 B: 0.8 x 0.4 |
| Position angle | B: 133 ° |
| Surface brightness | A: 10.7 mag / arcmin² B: 13.7 mag / arcmin² |
| Physical data | |
| Redshift | 0.025300 |
| Radial velocity | 7585 km / s |
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Stroke distance v rad / H 0 |
(348 ± 24) x 10 6 ly (106.6 ± 7.5) Mpc |
| history | |
| discovery | Lewis A. Swift |
| Discovery date | July 19, 1887 |
| Catalog names | |
| IC 1259 • UGC 10869 • PGC 60323/60325 • CGCG 300-030 • MCG + 10-25-37 • Arp 310, part of 311 • VV 101 • KCPG 575B | |
IC 1259 = Arp 310 is an interacting pair of galaxies in the Dragon constellation in the northern sky , an estimated 348 million light years from the Milky Way . Halton Arp organized his catalog of unusual galaxies into groups according to purely morphological criteria. This pair of galaxies belongs to the class Unclassified double galaxies . It also forms the galaxy triplet Arp 311 together with the galaxies IC 1258 and IC 1260 .
The object was discovered by Lewis A. Swift on July 19, 1887 .
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