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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 axis are SGX, SGY, and SGZ). Units are in kiloparsecs, which means the whole depicted box is 6.5 by 6.5 megaparsecs in area and three megaparsecs high. The supergalactic plane is shown as a grey plane across the drawing.

The location of each galaxy is depicted in two ways: if a galaxy is above the supergalactic plane, then it has a greenish line under it showing how high it is from the plane and if the galaxy is below the supergalactic plane, it has a blueish line above it showing how far below the plane the galaxy is. Each galaxy is also projected to SGX-SGY plane, SGX-SGZ plane, and SGY-SGZ plane. The projection is shown with a light blue dot on the plane for galaxies under the supergalactic plane and with a light green dot for galaxies above the supergalactic plane. There is also a dark blue line connecting the galaxy to these dots. Unfortunately the density of the lines is so high in certain areas that it is difficult to distinguish them from each other. The size and shading of the galaxies is supposed to assist the 3D impression. The larger and brighter red the galaxy appears on the image, the closer it is to the viewer. Actual sizes of galaxies are so small that most of the galaxies would not be visible at all in this image.

3D image of the Extended Local Group of Galaxies
Please, click the image to see it even larger with galaxy labels clearly visible.
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 DwarfL26 - 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.
F11 - KKR25 F26 - IC 4662
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.
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
S21 - NGC 7793

Galaxies L1-L47 are Local Group galaxies, F11 and F26 field galaxies, M1-M27 Maffei Group galaxies, and S1-S21 Sculptor Group galaxies.

Created by Rami T. F. Rekola
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