UGC 6865
| Galaxy Arp 62 / UGC 6865 |
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| SDSS recording | |
| AladinLite | |
| Constellation | Big Bear |
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Position equinox : J2000.0 , epoch : J2000.0 |
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| Right ascension | 11 h 53 m 39.0 s |
| declination | + 43 ° 27 ′ 24 ″ |
| Appearance | |
| Brightness (visual) | 14.7 mag |
| Angular expansion | 1.1 ′ × 0.4 ′ |
| Physical data | |
| Redshift | 0.019634 ± 0.00003 |
| Radial velocity | (5886 ± 9) km / s |
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Stroke distance v rad / H 0 |
(265 ± 19) · 10 6 ly (81.1 ± 5.7) Mpc |
| history | |
| Catalog names | |
| UGC 6865 • PGC 37282 • CGCG 214-035 / 215-003 • MCG + 07-25-002 • Arp 62 • VV 286 • II Zw 055 | |
Arp 62 = UGC 6865 is an interacting galaxy pair in the constellation Great Bear , which is about 265 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 6865 - 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