Galaxy Zoo Talk

how far away?

  • suelaine by suelaine

    Can someone tell me how far away this galaxy is? It looks very distant.

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  • ElisabethB by ElisabethB moderator

    I could only find a photoz for this galaxy of 0.336.

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  • JeanTate by JeanTate

    If it does have a redshift of ~0.34, it's a HUDS candidate! HUDS = HUmongous Distant Spiral; these kinds of objects I'm very interested in. So I Collected it.

    With edge-on spirals, it's not so easy to judge whether photoz is reasonable, because dust lanes can mess the (in the image) colors, making them redder and so suggesting they have a higher z than they really do.

    Thanks for asking your question, suelaine! 😃

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