Spiral Galaxies UGC 06212 & UGC 06216

Compact Galaxy Group Shakhbazian 351
- Supernova 2003 ci

Supernova 2003ci:

• Discovered: March 21st, 2003, by B. Swift and W. Li of the LOTOSS/KAIT supernova search group.
• Magnitude 17.5 at discovery, and about 19.0 in the Kopernik image.
• Type: II.
• A spectrum obtained on Mar. 25th 2003, shows it to be approximately 3 weeks past explosion with a photospheric expansion velocity of 6,500 km/s (IAUC 8089).

Follow this Link to a NASA Web site on supernovas. It has a very nice animation and a description of what these objects are.

UGC 06212 and Shakhbazian 351:

Spiral Galaxy UGC 06212 form a loose pair of galaxies in Leo. They are roughly 264 million light years away. There is also another dim anonymous galaxy near the pair, but it is probably a background object.

UGC 06216:

Edge-on Spiral Galaxy UGC 06216 (left side of the image) has a somewhat different red shift and is probably not a part of this group. The red shift gives a distance estimate of 305 million light years for this galaxy. This region of Leo is filled with dim 15th to 20th magnitude galaxies at great distance.

UGC 06212 Magnitude: 14.0 Constellation: Leo RA: 11h 10m 24.8s Dec: +04° 49' 48" Epoch 2000 Size (mins): 0.8' x 0.5' Classification: Spiral Galaxy

UGC 06216 Magnitude: 15.2 Constellation: Leo RA: 11h 10m 41.0s Dec: +04° 50' 42" Epoch 2000 Size (mins): 1.2' x 0.2' Classification: SBa?   Barred Spiral Galaxy {uncertain}

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George Normandin, KAS

May 11th, 2003