UGC 11861
UGC 11861 is a barred spiral galaxy in the constellation of Cepheus. Its velocity with respect to the cosmic microwave background is 1334 ± 10 km/s, which corresponds to a Hubble distance of 19.68 ± 1.39Mpc. In addition, three non redshift measurements give a distance of 18.933 ± 5.26Mpc. The first known reference to this galaxy comes from volume IV of the Catalogue of Galaxies and of Clusters of Galaxies compiled by Fritz Zwicky in 1968, where it was listed as CGCG343-003, and described as an "extremely diffuse spiral".
The SIMBAD database lists UGC11861 as an active galaxy nucleus candidate, i.e. it has a compact region at the center that emits a significant amount of energy across the electromagnetic spectrum, with characteristics indicating that this luminosity is not produced by the stars. In addition, the galaxy contains two broad spiral arms wrapping around its central region.