UGC 12665

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Galaxy
Arp 46 / UGC 12665
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SDSS recording
SDSS recording
AladinLite
Constellation Pegasus
Position
equinoxJ2000.0 , epoch : J2000.0
Right ascension 23 h 33 m 38.6 s
declination + 30 ° 02 ′ 20 ″
Appearance
Morphological type SB (rs) d pec  
Brightness  (visual) 15 likes
Angular expansion 1.2 ′ × 0.9 ′
Physical data
Redshift 0.017929 ± 0.000033  
Radial velocity (5375 ± 10) km / s  
Stroke distance
v rad  / H 0
(249 ± 17)  ·  10 6  ly
(76.2 ± 5.3)  Mpc 
history
Catalog names
UGC  12665 ​​• PGC  71748 • CGCG  497-038 • MCG  + 05-55-036 • Arp  46 • VV  314 • HOLM 809B

UGC 12665 ​​= Arp 46 is a barred spiral galaxy in the constellation Pegasus. It is an estimated 249 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) .

Web links

Commons : UGC 12665  - 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

Individual evidence

  1. a b c d NASA / IPAC EXTRAGALACTIC DATABASE