NGC 1961
| Galaxy NGC 1961 |
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| Image taken with a 60 cm telescope | |
| AladinLite | |
| Constellation | giraffe |
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Position equinox : J2000.0 , epoch : J2000.0 |
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| Right ascension | 05 h 42 m 04.6 s |
| declination | + 69 ° 22 ′ 42 ″ |
| Appearance | |
| Morphological type | SAB (rs) c LINER |
| Brightness (visual) | 10.9 likes |
| Brightness (B-band) | 11.7 mag |
| Angular expansion | 4.5 ′ × 3.1 ′ |
| Position angle | 85 ° |
| Surface brightness | 13.6 mag / arcmin² |
| Physical data | |
| Affiliation | NGC 1961 group , LGG 132 |
| Redshift | 0.013122 ± 0.000003 |
| Radial velocity | (3934 ± 1) km / s |
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Stroke distance v rad / H 0 |
(181 ± 13) · 10 6 ly (55.6 ± 3.9) Mpc |
| history | |
| discovery | Wilhelm Herschel |
| Discovery date | December 3, 1788 |
| Catalog names | |
| NGC 1961 • IC 2133 • UGC 3334 • PGC 17625 • CGCG 329-008 • MCG + 12-06-007 • IRAS 05365 + 6921 • Arp 184 • GC 1167 • H III 747 • | |
NGC 1961 = IC 2133 = Arp 184 is a barred spiral galaxy with the morphological type SAB (rs) c in the constellation Giraffe in the northern sky . It is around 182 million light years away from the Milky Way. The spiral arms are strongly distorted on the northern side and the galaxy shows active star formation in large areas .
Halton Arp organized his catalog of unusual galaxies into groups according to purely morphological criteria. This galaxy belongs to the class of narrow filament galaxies .
The galaxy was discovered on December 3, 1788 by the German-British astronomer Friedrich Wilhelm Herschel .
The galaxy NGC in 1961 captured by GALEX
Combination of several images from the Hubble Space Telescope
Web links
Commons : NGC 1961 - 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