UGC 3104
| Galaxy Arp 61 / UGC 3104 |
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| AladinLite | |
| Constellation | Orion |
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Position equinox : J2000.0 , epoch : J2000.0 |
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| Right ascension | 04 h 36 m 40.3 s |
| declination | -02 ° 17 ′ 26 ″ |
| Appearance | |
| Morphological type | Sat |
| Brightness (visual) | 15.1 mag |
| Angular expansion | 1 ′ × 0.5 ′ |
| Physical data | |
| Redshift | 0.032486 ± 0.000040 |
| Radial velocity | (9739 ± 12) km / s |
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Stroke distance v rad / H 0 |
(432 ± 30) · 10 6 Lj (132.4 ± 9.3) Mpc |
| history | |
| Catalog names | |
| UGC 3104 • PGC 15637 • CGCG 393-047 • MCG + 00-12-055 • 2MASX J04364028-0217256 • Arp 61 • LDCE 0326 NED003 | |
Arp 61 = UGC 3104 is a spiral galaxy in the constellation Orion , which is about 432 million light years away from the Milky Way and at the end of one of its spiral arms interacts with a smaller object of high surface brightness ( PGC 213288 ).
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
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