UGC 11874 — Sc in Cygnus
Sc in Cygnus, 1.2 arcminutes across, its light 36 million years old. Measured by HyperLEDA, photographed by Pan-STARRS1. Recorded once.
About UGC 11874
What you are looking at
UGC 11874 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 68° from face-on, so it appears as a long oval. From edge to edge its visible disc spans about 12,000 light-years (taking its redshift distance, which for a galaxy this near is approximate), about 12% of the Milky Way’s width.
What astronomers have recorded
SIMBAD, the reference database astronomers use, classes it as a member of a group of galaxies. Astronomers' catalogues record it under 10 different designations.
When this light set out
What a telescope records of UGC 11874 is light that left it about 36 million years ago; on Earth, the planet had come through its hottest interval since the dinosaurs. The galaxy is moving away from us at about 741 km/s (1.7 million mph), carried by the expansion of the universe. For a galaxy this close, its own motion through space is a large share of that speed, so the distance worked out from it is approximate; distances measured from individual stars in it can differ.
Finding it in the sky
UGC 11874 lies in Cygnus. From most of the United States it never sets: it circles the north celestial pole all year, and stands highest on autumn evenings, around September.
By apparent size it is number 8,271 of the 12,657 galaxies on the Galaxy Origins register.
Measurements
| Catalogue | PGC 67832 |
|---|---|
| Morphological type | Sc |
| Angular diameter | 1.15′ |
| Right ascension | 22h00m51.9s |
| Declination | +51°34′19.5″ |
| Constellation | Cygnus |
| Inclination | 68.5° |
| Light travel time | 36 million years |
| Bar | not recorded |
Check every figure above in the NASA/IPAC Extragalactic Database
What is sold
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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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