PGC 39058

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PGC 39058
PGC 39058.jpg
PGC 39058 imaged by the Hubble Space Telescope
Observation data (J2000 epoch)
Constellation Draco
Right ascension 12h 14m 08.4s [1]
Declination +66° 05 41 [1]
Redshift 0.000227 [1]
Heliocentric radial velocity 68 [1]
Distance 17.710 ± 0.055 Mly
(5.430 ± 0.017 Mpc) [1]
Apparent magnitude  (V)14.6 [1]
Characteristics
Type Scd
Apparent size  (V)1.95' x 0.8385' [1]
Other designations
UGC 7242, PGC 39058, MCG+11-15-037 [2]

PGC 39058 is a dwarf galaxy located 17.7 million light-years away in the constellation Draco. The galaxy is faint and obscured by HD 106381, a star in the foreground making it difficult to observe. [3]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 "PGC 39058". NASA/IPAC Extragalactic Database .
  2. "NGC 672". SIMBAD . Centre de données astronomiques de Strasbourg . Retrieved 26 December 2016.
  3. "Bright star — faint galaxy". spacetelescope.org.