PGC 214249

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Galaxy
LEDA / PGC 214249
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NGC 5579 & PGC 214249 (below) [1]
NGC 5579 & PGC 214249 (below)
AladinLite
Constellation Bear keeper
Position
equinoxJ2000.0 , epoch : J2000.0
Right ascension 14 h 20 m 27.963 s
declination + 35 ° 09 ′ 38.54 ″
Appearance
Morphological type S0 + / a?  
Brightness  (visual) 17.4 likes
Angular expansion 0.36 ′ × 0.16 ′
Physical data
Redshift 0.012164 ± 0.001021  
Radial velocity 3647 ± 306 km / s  
Stroke distance
v rad  / H 0
(166 ± 18)  ·  10 6  ly
(51.0 ± 5.5)  Mpc 
diameter 15,000 ly
history
Catalog names
PGC  214249 • Arp  69 • GALEX ASC J142028.02 + 350938.4 • SDSS J142027.96 + 350938.5 • WISEA J142027.91 + 350938.2 • ASK 393167.0

LEDA / PGC 214249 is a lenticular dwarf galaxy of the Hubble type S0 + / a? in the constellation Bear Guardian in the northern sky . It is an estimated 166 million light-years away from the Milky Way and about 15,000 light-years in diameter.
Together with NGC 5579 , it forms the gravitationally bound galaxy pair Arp 69 .

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

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Aladin Lite
  2. a b c d e NASA / IPAC EXTRAGALACTIC DATABASE
  3. Seligman