UGC 11399 — Sbc in Lyra
Sbc in Lyra, 1.3 arcminutes across, its light 303 million years old. Measured by HyperLEDA, photographed by Pan-STARRS1. Recorded once.
About UGC 11399
What you are looking at
UGC 11399 is a spiral of the same broad class astronomers give the Milky Way: a moderate bulge and clearly drawn arms. We see it almost exactly edge-on, so its whole disc appears as one thin band of light, with dust showing as a dark line along its length. From edge to edge its visible disc spans about 117,000 light-years, about 1.2 times the width of the Milky Way.
When this light set out
The light that reaches us from UGC 11399 today set out about 303 million years ago, when giant insects flew over coal forests. The galaxy is moving away from us at about 6,384 km/s (14.3 million mph), carried by the expansion of the universe.
Finding it in the sky
UGC 11399 lies in Lyra. It is best placed on summer evenings: around 9:30 pm in August it stands about 84° high in the south, seen from the middle of the United States.
By apparent size it is number 5,341 of the 12,657 galaxies on the Galaxy Origins register.
Measurements
| Catalogue | PGC 62748 |
|---|---|
| Morphological type | Sbc |
| Angular diameter | 1.34′ |
| Right ascension | 19h04m57.3s |
| Declination | +34°27′51.9″ |
| Constellation | Lyra |
| Inclination | 90.0° |
| Light travel time | 303 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 1.3 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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