UGC 11894 — Sa in Lacerta
Sa in Lacerta, 1.1 arcminutes across, its light 251 million years old. Measured by HyperLEDA, photographed by Pan-STARRS1. Recorded once.
About UGC 11894
What you are looking at
UGC 11894 is an early-type spiral: a large, bright central bulge wrapped in smooth, tightly wound arms. Its disc is steeply tilted, about 79° from face-on, so it appears as a long oval. From edge to edge its visible disc spans about 78,000 light-years, about 80% of the Milky Way’s width.
What astronomers have recorded
Astronomers' catalogues record it under 9 different designations.
When this light set out
The light that reaches us from UGC 11894 today set out about 251 million years ago, when the largest extinction in Earth’s history had struck. The galaxy is moving away from us at about 5,280 km/s (11.8 million mph), carried by the expansion of the universe.
Finding it in the sky
In the sky, UGC 11894 sits within the constellation Lacerta. It is best placed on autumn evenings: around 9:30 pm in September it stands about 88° 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 11919 (1.0° away on the sky, at least 4,330,000 light-years from it).
By apparent size it is number 10,180 of the 12,657 galaxies on the Galaxy Origins register.
Measurements
| Catalogue | PGC 67965 |
|---|---|
| Morphological type | Sa |
| Angular diameter | 1.07′ |
| Right ascension | 22h04m06.6s |
| Declination | +41°49′09.4″ |
| Constellation | Lacerta |
| Inclination | 78.6° |
| Light travel time | 251 million years |
| Bar | not recorded |
Check every figure above in the NASA/IPAC Extragalactic Database
What is sold
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At 1.1 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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