PGC 12491

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Galaxy
LEDA / PGC 12491
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NGC 1298 & LEDA 12491 [1]
NGC 1298 & LEDA 12491
AladinLite
Constellation Eridanus
Position
equinoxJ2000.0 , epoch : J2000.0
Right ascension 03 h 20 m 20.58 s
declination -02 ° 04 ′ 50.9 ″
Appearance
Morphological type SAB (rs) a  
Brightness  (B-band) 15.06 mag
Angular expansion 0.7 ′ × 0.5 ′
Physical data
Redshift 0.037686 ± 0.000197  
Radial velocity 11,298 ± 59 km / s  
Stroke distance
v rad  / H 0
(504 ± 35)  x  10 6  ly
(154.5 ± 10.8)  Mpc 
history
Catalog names
UGC  2687 • PGC  12491 • CGCG  390-064 • MCG  + 00-09-063 • IRAS  03177-0215 ​​• 2MASX  J03202059-0204507 • GALEX ASC J032020.67-020451.8 • NVSS J032020-020458 • WISEA J032020.56-020450.9

LEDA / PGC 12491 (also UGC 2687) is a bar-spiral galaxy of the Hubble type SBa in the constellation Eridanus in the southern sky . It is estimated to be 504 million light years from the Milky Way .
In the same area of ​​the sky there are u. a. the galaxies NGC 1289 , NGC 1298 , NGC 1305 , IC 314 .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Aladin Lite
  2. a b c d e f NASA / IPAC EXTRAGALACTIC DATABASE
  3. SIMBAD Astronomical Database