UGC 11417 — Sc in Lyra
Sc in Lyra, 1.0 arcminutes across, its light 190 million years old. Measured by HyperLEDA, photographed by Pan-STARRS1. Recorded once.
About UGC 11417
What you are looking at
UGC 11417 is a late-type spiral: a small central bulge and open, loosely wound arms full of young stars and star-forming gas. Its disc is steeply tilted, about 69° from face-on, so it appears as a long oval. From edge to edge its visible disc spans about 56,000 light-years, about half the width of the Milky Way.
When this light set out
Its light has been travelling for about 190 million years. When it left, dinosaurs had begun to dominate. The galaxy is moving away from us at about 3,970 km/s (8.9 million mph), carried by the expansion of the universe.
Finding it in the sky
UGC 11417 lies in Lyra. It is best placed on summer evenings: around 9:30 pm in August it stands about 80° 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: UGC 11428 (1.6° away on the sky, at least 5,150,000 light-years from it); UGC 11404 (1.9° away on the sky, at least 6,120,000 light-years from it).
By apparent size it is number 12,027 of the 12,657 galaxies on the Galaxy Origins register.
Measurements
| Catalogue | PGC 62944 |
|---|---|
| Morphological type | Sc |
| Angular diameter | 1.02′ |
| Right ascension | 19h14m22.0s |
| Declination | +29°58′35.2″ |
| Constellation | Lyra |
| Inclination | 69.1° |
| Light travel time | 190 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 1.0 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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