NGC 14

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Galaxy
NGC 14
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NGC 14 [1] SDSS image
NGC 14 SDSS image
AladinLite
Constellation Pegasus
Position
equinoxJ2000.0 , epoch : J2000.0
Right ascension 00 h 08 m 46.40 s
declination + 15 ° 48 ′ 56.0 ″
Appearance
Morphological type (R) IB (s) m / pec  
Brightness  (visual) 12.2 mag
Brightness  (B-band) 12.8 mag
Angular expansion 2 ′, 8 × 2 ′, 1
Position angle 23.1 °
Surface brightness 14.0 mag / arcmin²
Physical data
Affiliation NGC 7814 group  
Redshift +0.002885 ± 0.000017  
Radial velocity 865 ± 5 km / s  
Stroke distance
v rad  / H 0
(45 ± 3)  x  10 6  ly
(13.9 ± 1.0)  Mpc 
history
discovery Wilhelm Herschel
Discovery date September 18, 1786
Catalog names
NGC  14 • UGC  75 • PGC  647 • CGCG  456-34 • MCG  + 03-01-026 • IRAS  00062 + 1532 • KUG  0006 + 155 • 2MASX  J00084642 + 1548559 • Arp  235 • VV  80 • GC  7 • H  II-591 • h  3 • HIPASS  J0008 + 15 • NSA 126277 • USGC U006 NED05

NGC 14 = Arp 235 is an irregular galaxy of the Hubble type IBm in the constellation Pegasus north of the celestial equator . It's about 45 million light years away from us and about 30,000 light years across.

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 .

Together with NGC 7814 , PGC 38 , PGC 332 and PGC 889 , it forms the NGC 7814 group.

The object was discovered on September 18, 1786 by the German-British astronomer Wilhelm Herschel .

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

Web links

Commons : NGC 14  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Aladin Lite
  2. a b c d e NASA / IPAC EXTRAGALACTIC DATABASE
  3. a b c d e SEDS : NGC 14
  4. LEDA: NGC 14
  5. Seligman