IC 1762
| Galaxy IC 1762 |
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| AladinLite | |
| Constellation | Chemical furnace |
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Position equinox : J2000.0 , epoch : J2000.0 |
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| Right ascension | 01 h 57 m 48.6 s |
| declination | -33 ° 14 ′ 23 ″ |
| Appearance | |
| Morphological type | SB (s) bc / HII |
| Brightness (visual) | 13.5 likes |
| Brightness (B-band) | 14.3 mag |
| Angular expansion | 1.8 ′ × 0.4 ′ |
| Position angle | 43 ° |
| Surface brightness | 13.5 mag / arcmin² |
| Physical data | |
| Redshift | 0.018840 ± 0.000017 |
| Radial velocity | 5648 ± 5 km / s |
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Stroke distance v rad / H 0 |
(250 ± 18) x 10 6 ly (76.5 ± 5.4) Mpc |
| history | |
| discovery | Lewis Swift |
| Discovery date | September 6, 1897 |
| Catalog names | |
| IC 1762 • PGC 7393 • ESO 354-017 • MCG -06-05-015 • IRAS 01555-3329 • 2MASX 01574863-3314231 • SGC 015536-3329.0 • LEDA 7393 | |
IC 1762 is a bar-spiral galaxy with extensive star formation regions of the Hubble type SBbc in the constellation Fornax in the southern sky . It is estimated to be 250 million light years away from the Milky Way and has a diameter of around 135,000 ly.
In the same area of the sky is the galaxy IC 1759 , among others .
The object was discovered by Lewis Swift on September 6, 1897 .