IC 1254
| Galaxy IC 1254 |
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| The galaxies NGC 6340 (lower half of the image, middle), IC 1251 (above) and IC 1254 (left) recorded with the 81 cm reflector telescope of the Mount Lemmon Observatory . | |
| AladinLite | |
| Constellation | Dragon |
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Position equinox : J2000.0 , epoch : J2000.0 |
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| Right ascension | 17 h 11 m 33.4 s |
| declination | + 72 ° 24 ′ 07 ″ |
| Appearance | |
| Morphological type | SBb |
| Brightness (visual) | 14.1 mag |
| Brightness (B-band) | 14.9 mag |
| Angular expansion | 1.60 × 0.7 |
| Position angle | 32 ° |
| Surface brightness | 14.1 mag / arcmin² |
| Physical data | |
| Redshift | 0.004280 +/- 0.000163 |
| Radial velocity | (1283 +/- 49) km / s |
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Stroke distance v rad / H 0 |
(66 ± 5) x 10 6 ly (20.2 ± 1.6) Mpc |
| history | |
| discovery | Edward Swift |
| Discovery date | September 18, 1890 |
| Catalog names | |
| IC 1254 • UGC 10769 • PGC 59783 • CGCG 339-032 • MCG + 12-16-024 • 2MASX J17113334 + 7224072 • | |
IC 1254 is a bar-spiral galaxy of the Hubble type SBb in the constellation Dragon in the northern sky . It is an estimated 66 million light years away from the Milky Way and has a diameter of about 30,000 ly.
The galaxies NGC 6340 and IC 1251 are in the same area of the sky .
The object was discovered by Edward Swift on September 18, 1890 .