UGC 6665
| Galaxy Arp 161 / UGC 6665 |
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| SDSS recording | |
| AladinLite | |
| Constellation | Virgin |
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Position equinox : J2000.0 , epoch : J2000.0 |
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| Right ascension | 11 h 42 m 12.4 s |
| declination | + 00 ° 20 ′ 03 ″ |
| Appearance | |
| Morphological type | Sb pec; HII; WR / Sbrst |
| Brightness (visual) | 14.7 mag |
| Angular expansion | 0.4 ′ × 0.4 ′ |
| Physical data | |
| Redshift | 0.018559 ± 0.000010 |
| Radial velocity | (5564 ± 3) km / s |
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Stroke distance v rad / H 0 |
(243 ± 17) · 10 6 ly (74.6 ± 5.2) Mpc |
| history | |
| Catalog names | |
| UGC 6665 • PGC 36325 • CGCG 012-061 • MCG + 00-30-019 • IRAS 11396 + 0036 • 2MASX J11421225 + 0020036 • Arp 161 • Mrk 1304 • | |
UGC 6665 = Arp 161 is a spiral galaxy of the Hubble type Sb pec in the constellation Virgo on the ecliptic . It is an estimated 243 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 diffuse filament galaxies .
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