UGC 1432

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Galaxy
UGC 1432 / Arp 56
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Constellation Aries
Position
equinoxJ2000.0 , epoch : J2000.0
Right ascension 01 h 57 m 26.8 s
declination + 17 ° 13 ′ 13 ″
Appearance
Morphological type Sbc  
Brightness  (visual) 14.6 mag
Angular expansion 0.9 ′ × 0.6 ′
Physical data
Redshift 0.026865 ± 0.000017  
Radial velocity (8054 ± 5) km / s  
Stroke distance
v rad  / H 0
(364 ± 26)  x  10 6  ly
(111.5 ± 7.9)  Mpc 
history
Catalog names
UGC  1432 • PGC  7359 • CGCG  461-010 • MCG  + 03-06-004 • 2MASX  J01572677 + 1713142 • Arp  56 • VV  12 •

UGC 1432 = Arp 56 is a spiral galaxy in the constellation Aries , which is about 364 million light years from the Milky Way.

Halton Arp organized his catalog of unusual galaxies into groups according to purely morphological criteria. This galaxy belongs to the class spiral galaxies with a small companion of high surface brightness on one arm (Arp catalog) .

Web links

Commons : UGC 1432  - 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

Individual evidence

  1. a b c d NASA / IPAC EXTRAGALACTIC DATABASE