UGC 934

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Galaxy
Arp 70 / UGC 934
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SDSS recording
SDSS recording
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Constellation fishes
Position
equinoxJ2000.0 , epoch : J2000.0
Right ascension 01 h 23 m 28.3 s
declination + 30 ° 47 ′ 04 ″
Appearance
Morphological type S?  
Brightness  (visual) 15.0 mag
Angular expansion 1.7 ′ × 0.6 ′
Physical data
Affiliation Abell 1960  
Redshift 0.035004 ± 0.000033  
Radial velocity (10494 ± 10) km / s  
Stroke distance
v rad  / H 0
(475 ± 33)  x  10 6  ly
(145.7 ± 10.2)  Mpc 
history
Catalog names
UGC  934 • PGC  5085 • CGCG  502-063 • MCG  + 05-04-042 • 2MASX  J01232834 + 3047042 • Arp  70 • VV  341a • II Zw 055

Arp 70 = UGC 934 is a galaxy in the constellation Pisces , which is about 475 million light years from the Milky Way. At the end of one of its spiral arms the galaxy has a smaller object with high surface brightness ( PGC 212740 ).

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 small companion of high surface brightness on one arm (Arp catalog) .

Web links

Commons : UGC 934  - 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