CLASS B1359+154

{{Short description|Quasar in the constellation Boötes}}

{{Quasar

| name=CLASS B1359+154

| image=

| caption=

| epoch=J2000

| ra={{RA|14|01|35.60}}{{cite journal

| title=Quasars in the 2MASS Second Incremental Data

|author1=Barkhouse, Wayne A. |author2=Hall, Patrick B. | journal=The Astronomical Journal | volume=121

| issue=5 | pages=2843–2850 |date=May 2001

| doi=10.1086/320377 | bibcode=2001AJ....121.2843B|arxiv = astro-ph/0101270 |s2cid=15464856 }}

| dec={{DEC|+15|13|25.0}}

| constellation name=Boötes

| z=3.235

| type=

| dist_ly=

| appmag_v=21.9

| size_v=

| notes=Six-image lens, noted [MRF99] CLASS B1359+154 A, A to F

| names=QSO B1359+154

}}

CLASS B1359+154 is a quasar, or quasi-stellar object, that has a redshift of 3.235. A group of three foreground galaxies at a redshift of about 1 are behaving as gravitational lenses. The result is a rare example of a sixfold multiply imaged quasar.{{cite journal

| author=Rusin, D. |date=August 2001

| title=B1359+154: A Six-Image Lens Produced by a z ~= 1 Compact Group of Galaxies

| journal=The Astrophysical Journal | volume=557

| issue=2 | pages=594–604

| doi=10.1086/322251 | bibcode=2001ApJ...557..594R|arxiv = astro-ph/0011505 |s2cid=119470100

|display-authors=etal}}