IC 173
| Galaxy IC 173 |
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| SDSS image from IC 173 | |
| AladinLite | |
| Constellation | whale |
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Position equinox : J2000.0 , epoch : J2000.0 |
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| Right ascension | 01 h 55 m 57.1 s |
| declination | + 01 ° 17 ′ 07 ″ |
| Appearance | |
| Morphological type | SB (rs) bc |
| Brightness (visual) | 14.1 mag |
| Brightness (B-band) | 14.9 mag |
| Angular expansion | 0.9 ′ × 0.7 ′ |
| Position angle | 107 ° |
| Surface brightness | 13.4 mag / arcmin² |
| Physical data | |
| Redshift | 0.046419 +/- 0.000100 |
| Radial velocity | 13916 +/- 30 km / s |
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Stroke distance v rad / H 0 |
(624 ± 44) · 10 6 Lj (191.2 ± 13.4) Mpc |
| history | |
| discovery | Stéphane Javelle |
| Discovery date | December 26, 1893 |
| Catalog names | |
| IC 173 • UGC 1402 • PGC 7217 • CGCG 387-001 • MCG + 00-06-001 • IRAS F01533 + 0102 • 2MASX J01555713 + 0117066 • LEDA 7217 • GALEX MSC J015557.13 + 011708.5 | |
IC 173 is a bar-spiral galaxy of the Hubble type SBbc in the constellation Whale south of the celestial equator . It is estimated to be 369 million light years away from the Milky Way and has a diameter of around 40,000 ly.
In the same area of the sky are the galaxies NGC 772 and IC 175 .
The object was discovered by Stéphane Javelle on December 26, 1893 .
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Attention: The sort key “IC 0173” overwrites the previously used key “IC0173”.