IC 4271
| Galaxy  IC 4271  | 
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| IC 4271 and PGC 3096774 (below) | |
| AladinLite | |
| Constellation | Hunting dogs | 
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Position  equinox : J2000.0 , epoch : J2000.0  | 
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| Right ascension | 13 h 29 m 21.4 s | 
| declination | + 37 ° 24 ′ 42 ″ | 
| Appearance | |
| Morphological type | S + C | 
| Brightness (visual) | 15 likes | 
| Brightness (B-band) | 15.8 mag | 
| Angular expansion | 0.8 ′ × 0.5 ′ | 
| Surface brightness | 13.3 mag / arcmin² | 
| Physical data | |
| Redshift | 0.057000 | 
| Radial velocity | 17088 km / s | 
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Stroke distance  v rad / H 0  | 
(766 ± 53)  ·  10 6  ly (234.9 ± 16.4) Mpc  | 
| history | |
| discovery | Stéphane Javelle | 
| Discovery date | July 10, 1896 | 
| Catalog names | |
| IC 4271 • PGC 47334 • CGCG 190-012 • MCG + 06-30-015 • Arp 40 • VV 355 • | |
IC 4271 = Arp 40 is an interacting pair of galaxies in the constellation Hounds, which is about 766 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 on July 10, 1896 by the astronomer Stéphane Javelle . The interacting component is the galaxy PGC 3096774 .
Web links
Commons : IC 4271  - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files
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