UGC 3487 — Sc in Auriga
Sc in Auriga, 1.2 arcminutes across, its light 248 million years old. Measured by HyperLEDA, photographed by Pan-STARRS1. Recorded once.
About UGC 3487
What you are looking at
UGC 3487 is a late-type spiral: a small central bulge and open, loosely wound arms full of young stars and star-forming gas. It is tilted about 54° to our line of sight, enough to show both the shape of its arms and the depth of its disc. From edge to edge its visible disc spans about 86,000 light-years, close to the width of the Milky Way.
What astronomers have recorded
Astronomers' catalogues record it under 9 different designations.
When this light set out
Its light has been travelling for about 248 million years. When it left, the largest extinction in Earth’s history had struck. The galaxy is moving away from us at about 5,212 km/s (11.7 million mph), carried by the expansion of the universe.
Finding it in the sky
UGC 3487 lies in Auriga. It is best placed on winter evenings: around 9:30 pm in February it stands about 89° high in the north, close to overhead, seen from the middle of the United States.
By apparent size it is number 7,355 of the 12,657 galaxies on the Galaxy Origins register.
Measurements
| Catalogue | PGC 19252 |
|---|---|
| Morphological type | Sc |
| Angular diameter | 1.20′ |
| Right ascension | 06h33m39.8s |
| Declination | +40°41′15.8″ |
| Constellation | Auriga |
| Inclination | 53.6° |
| Light travel time | 248 million years |
| Bar | not recorded |
Check every figure above in the NASA/IPAC Extragalactic Database
What is sold
A print of this galaxy and the record of the calculation, once. When it sells it leaves the register and is not offered again. We assign no names and no ownership — nobody can sell you those.
At 1.2 arcminutes this is a Collection galaxy, which is the tier where a real photograph shows its shape and how far it is tilted away from us. The tier comes from the measured diameter, not from a price list.
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