UGC 2812
| Galaxy Arp 219 / UGC 2812 |
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| Hubble Space Telescope (brightness) and Pan-STARRS (color) | |
| AladinLite | |
| Constellation | Eridanus |
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Position equinox : J2000.0 , epoch : J2000.0 |
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| Right ascension | 03 h 39 m 54.1 s |
| declination | -02 ° 07 ′ 06 ″ |
| Appearance | |
| Brightness (B-band) | 14.4 mag |
| Angular expansion | 1 ′ × 0.7 ′ |
| Physical data | |
| Redshift | 0.035094 ± 0.000097 |
| Radial velocity | (10521 ± 29) km / s |
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Stroke distance v rad / H 0 |
(468 ± 33) · 10 6 ly (143.6 ± 10.1) Mpc |
| history | |
| Catalog names | |
| UGCA 2812 • PGC 13489 • CGCG 391-024 • MCG + 00-10-009 • Arp 219 • VV 495 • | |
UGC 2812 = Arp 219 is an interacting pair of galaxies in the constellation Eridanus . The galaxy pair is about 468 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 of galaxies with adjacent loops .
Web links
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