UGC 3593 — SABc in Auriga
SABc in Auriga, 1.4 arcminutes across, its light 318 million years old. Measured by HyperLEDA, photographed by Pan-STARRS1. Recorded once.
About UGC 3593
What you are looking at
UGC 3593 is a late-type spiral: a small central bulge and open, loosely wound arms full of young stars and star-forming gas. A weak bar of stars crosses its centre. Its disc is steeply tilted, about 63° from face-on, so it appears as a long oval. From edge to edge its visible disc spans about 131,000 light-years, about 1.3 times the width of the Milky Way.
What astronomers have recorded
Astronomers' catalogues record it under 9 different designations.
When this light set out
What a telescope records of UGC 3593 is light that left it about 318 million years ago; on Earth, giant insects flew over coal forests. The galaxy is moving away from us at about 6,699 km/s (15.0 million mph), carried by the expansion of the universe.
Finding it in the sky
UGC 3593 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.
Its neighbours
At almost the same distance from us, and so its neighbours in space as well as on the sky: UGC 3667 (2.8° away on the sky, at least 15,240,000 light-years from it).
By apparent size it is number 4,311 of the 12,657 galaxies on the Galaxy Origins register.
Measurements
| Catalogue | PGC 19856 |
|---|---|
| Morphological type | SABc |
| Angular diameter | 1.43′ |
| Right ascension | 06h55m14.2s |
| Declination | +40°57′38.7″ |
| Constellation | Auriga |
| Inclination | 63.4° |
| Light travel time | 318 million years |
| Bar | yes, from the catalogue |
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 1.4 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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