UGC 11058 — Sb in Hercules
Sb in Hercules, 1.3 arcminutes across, its light 227 million years old. Measured by HyperLEDA, photographed by Pan-STARRS1. Recorded once.
About UGC 11058
What you are looking at
UGC 11058 is a spiral with a sizeable central bulge and well-defined arms, close in type to the Milky Way. It is tilted about 46° 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.
When this light set out
The light that reaches us from UGC 11058 today set out about 227 million years ago, when the first dinosaurs had appeared. The galaxy is moving away from us at about 4,754 km/s (10.6 million mph), carried by the expansion of the universe.
Finding it in the sky
In the sky, UGC 11058 sits within the constellation Hercules. It is best placed on summer evenings: around 9:30 pm in July it stands about 83° high in the south, 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: NGC 6504 (0.6° away on the sky, at least 2,340,000 light-years from it); NGC 6485 (1.6° away on the sky, at least 6,230,000 light-years from it); UGC 11050 (2.0° away on the sky, at least 7,710,000 light-years from it).
By apparent size it is number 5,664 of the 12,657 galaxies on the Galaxy Origins register.
Measurements
| Catalogue | PGC 61155 |
|---|---|
| Morphological type | Sb |
| Angular diameter | 1.31′ |
| Right ascension | 17h56m55.0s |
| Declination | +32°38′11.7″ |
| Constellation | Hercules |
| Inclination | 46.3° |
| Light travel time | 227 million years |
| Bar | yes, from the catalogue |
Check every figure above in the NASA/IPAC Extragalactic Database
What is sold
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At 1.3 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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