FGC 0938
| Galaxy FGC 0938 |
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| NGC 2992 (right), NGC 2993 and FGC 0938 (below) image taken with an 80 cm telescope | |
| AladinLite | |
| Constellation | Water snake |
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Position equinox : J2000.0 , epoch : J2000.0 |
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| Right ascension | 09 h 45 m 34.8 s |
| declination | -14 ° 24 ′ 11 ″ |
| Appearance | |
| Morphological type | Scd |
| Brightness (visual) | 16.7 mag |
| Angular expansion | 1 ′, 3 × 0 ′, 1 |
| Physical data | |
| Affiliation | Arp 245 |
| Redshift | 0.008179 ± 0.000013 |
| Radial velocity | 2452 ± 4 km / s |
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Stroke distance v rad / H 0 |
(101 ± 7) · 10 6 ly (31 ± 2.2) Mpc |
| history | |
| Catalog names | |
| PGC 90942 • FGC 0938 • RFGC 1621 | |
FGC 0938 is an edge-on spiral galaxy of the Scd type in the constellation of Water Snake . It is located about 5 arc minutes southwest of the galaxies NGC 2992 , NGC 2993 and Arp 245N and forms a system with them. Halton Arp organized his catalog of unusual galaxies into groups according to purely morphological criteria. This galaxy belongs to the class galaxies showing signs of splitting .
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