UGC 3972
| Galaxy Arp 17 / UGC 3972 |
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| AladinLite | |
| Constellation | giraffe |
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Position equinox : J2000.0 , epoch : J2000.0 |
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| Right ascension | 07 h 44 m 41.2 s |
| declination | + 73 ° 49 ′ 15 ″ |
| Appearance | |
| Morphological type | SB? |
| Brightness (visual) | 14.6 mag |
| Angular expansion | 1.1 ′ × 0.6 ′ |
| Physical data | |
| Redshift | 0.017012 ± 0.000200 |
| Radial velocity | (5100 ± 60) km / s |
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Stroke distance v rad / H 0 |
(234 ± 17) · 10 6 ly (71.6 ± 5.1) Mpc |
| history | |
| Catalog names | |
| UGC 3972 • PGC 21693 / Part of the Galaxy (21685) • CGCG 330-049 • 331-011 • MCG + 12-08-008a • IRAS F07387 + 7356 • KUG 0738 + 739 • Arp 17 • GALEX ASC J074441.34 + 734914.6 | |
Arp 17 = UGC 3972 is an interacting bar-spiral galaxy of the Hubble type SB in the constellation Camelopardalis in the northern sky . It is about 234 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 separated sections (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