IC 1616
| Galaxy IC 1616 |
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| AladinLite | |
| Constellation | sculptor |
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Position equinox : J2000.0 , epoch : J2000.0 |
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| Right ascension | 01 h 04 m 56.18 s |
| declination | -27 ° 25 ′ 45.7 ″ |
| Appearance | |
| Morphological type | SB (rs) bc |
| Brightness (visual) | 12.5 mag |
| Brightness (B-band) | 13.3 mag |
| Angular expansion | 1.60 × 1.4 |
| Position angle | 4 ° |
| Surface brightness | 13.2 mag / arcmin² |
| Physical data | |
| Redshift | 0.018796 ± 0.000003 |
| Radial velocity | 5635 ± 1 km / s |
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Stroke distance v rad / H 0 |
(251 ± 18) x 10 6 ly (77 ± 5.4) Mpc |
| history | |
| discovery | Lewis Swift |
| Discovery date | May 24, 1897 |
| Catalog names | |
| IC 1616 • PGC 3846 • ESO 412-004 • MCG -05-03-022 • IRAS 1025-2741 • 2MASX J01045619-2725454 • SGC 10232-2741.8 • HIPASS J0104-27 • 2MASS J01045616-2725458 | |
IC 1616 is a bar-spiral galaxy of the Hubble type SBbc in the constellation Sculptor in the southern sky . It is estimated to be 251 million light years from the Milky Way and about 120,000 light years in diameter.
The object was discovered by Lewis Swift on May 24, 1897 .