NGC 1347

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Galaxy
NGC 1347
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Constellation Eridanus
Position
equinoxJ2000.0 , epoch : J2000.0
Right ascension 03 h 29 m 41.5 s
declination -22 ° 17 ′ 06 ″
Appearance
Morphological type SB (s) c: pec  
Brightness  (visual) 13.0 likes
Brightness  (B-band) 13.7 mag
Angular expansion 1.6 ′ × 1.3 ′
Position angle 12 °
Surface brightness 13.6 mag / arcmin²
Physical data
Affiliation LGG 097  
Redshift 0.005867 ± 0.000020  
Radial velocity (1759 ± 6) km / s  
Stroke distance
v rad  / H 0
(75 ± 5)  x  10 6  ly
(22.9 ± 1.6)  Mpc 
history
discovery Francis Leavenworth
Discovery date 1886
Catalog names
NGC  1347 • PGC  12989 • ESO  548- G027 • MCG  -04-09-017 • Arp  39 • VV  023 •

NGC 1347 = Arp 39 is an interacting galaxy pair in the constellation Eridanus, which is approximately 75 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 spiral galaxies with a companion of low surface brightness on one arm (Arp catalog) . NGC 1347 was discovered by the astronomer Francis Leavenworth in 1886 . The interacting component is the galaxy PGC 816443 .

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
  2. a b c d e f SEDS : NGC 1347
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