The Extended Local Group of Galaxies
This is an attempt to visualize the appearance of the Extended Local
Group of galaxies. The galaxies are shown in
supergalactic cartesian
coordinate system. The horizontal axis is SGX and vertical axis SGY,
which means the image shows the
supergalactic plane. Units are in kilo
parsecs.
The third dimension is depicted by the size and colour of the galaxies.
The smaller the galaxy is the further away it is. Therefore the
largest bubbles are the ones closest to the viewer. True sizes of
galaxies are so small that most galaxies would be too small to show
at all in this image. The colour indicates whether a galaxy is below
the supergalactic plane (red) or above it (blue).
If you compare this image with the true 3D
image, you will see that the true image shows the Extended
Local Group from a direction that is to the upper left in this
image.
Galaxy numbering:
L1 - WLM | L2 - IC 10 | L3 - Cetus Dwarf | L4 - NGC 147 |
L5 - And III | L6 - NGC 185 | L7 - NGC 205 | L8 - And VIII |
L9 - And IV | L10 - M32 | L11 - Andromeda Galaxy | L12 - And I |
L13 - SMC | L14 - And IX | L15 - Sculptor D. Sph. | L16 - Pisces Dwarf |
L17 - IC 1613 | L18 - And V | L19 - And II | L20 - M33 |
L21 - Phoenix Dwarf | L22 - Fornax D. Sph. | L23 - LMC | L24 - Carina Dwarf |
L25 - Canis Major Dwarf | L26 - Leo A | L27 - Sextans B | L28 - NGC 3109 |
L29 - Antlia Dwarf | L30 - Leo I | L31 - Sextans A | L32 - Sextans D. Sph. |
L33 - Leo II | L34 - GR 8 | L35 - Ursa Minor Dwarf | L36 - Draco Dwarf |
L37 - Milky Way | L38 - Sagittarius Dwarf | L39 - SagDIG | L40 - NGC 6822 |
L41 - Aquarius Dwarf | L42 - IC 5152 | L43 - Tucana Dwarf | L44 - UKS-2323-326 |
L45 - And VII | L46 - Pegasus Dwarf | L47 - Pegasus D. Sph. |
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F11 - KKR25 | F26 - IC 4662 |
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M1 - KKH 5 | M2 - KKH 6 | M3 - Cassiopeia 1 | M4 - KKH 11 |
M5 - KKH 12 | M6 - MB1 | M7 - Maffei 1 | M8 - MB2 |
M9 - Maffei 2 | M10 - Dwingeloo 2 | M11 - MB3 | M12 - Dwingeloo 1 |
M13 - KK 35 | M14 - IC 342 | M15 - UGCA 86 | M16 - Camelopardalis A |
M17 - NGC 1569 | M18 - UGCA 92 | M19 - NGC 1560 | M20 - Camelopardalis B |
M21 - UGCA 105 | M22 - KKH 34 | M23 - KKH 37 | M24 - NGC 2366 |
M25 - DDO 44 | M26 - NGC 2403 | M27 - Cassiopeia D. Sph. |
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S1 - Sculptor D. Sph. | S2 - NGC 55 | S3 - ESO 410-005G | S4 - NGC 59 |
S5 - Scl-dE1 (SC22) | S6 - ESO 294-010 |
| S8 - NGC 247 |
S9 - NGC 253 | S10 - ESO 540-030 | S11 - ESO 540-031 | S12 - ESO 540-032 |
S13 - NGC 300 | S14 - ESO 295-029 | S15 - NGC 625 | S16 - ESO 245-005 |
S17 - KK 258 | S18 - UGCA 438 | S19 - ESO 471-006 |
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S21 - NGC 7793 |
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Galaxies L1-L47 are Local Group galaxies, F11 and F26 field galaxies,
M1-M27 Maffei Group galaxies, and S1-S21 Sculptor Group galaxies.