IC 1816
| Galaxy IC 1816 |
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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 | 02 h 31 m 51.0 s |
| declination | -36 ° 40 ′ 19 ″ |
| Appearance | |
| Morphological type | (R'L) SA: (s:) a / Sy1 |
| Brightness (visual) | 13.1 mag |
| Brightness (B-band) | 13.9 likes |
| Angular expansion | 1.4 ′ × 1.2 ′ |
| Position angle | 167 ° |
| Surface brightness | 13.5 mag / arcmin² |
| Physical data | |
| Redshift | 0.016945 ± 0.000020 |
| Radial velocity | 5080 ± 6 km / s |
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Stroke distance v rad / H 0 |
(223 ± 16) x 10 6 ly (68.4 ± 4.8) Mpc |
| history | |
| discovery | Lewis Swift |
| Discovery date | October 12, 1896 |
| Catalog names | |
| IC 1816 • PGC 9634 • ESO 355-025 • MCG -06-06-011 • IRAS 02297-3653 • 2MASX J02315100-3640192 • SGC 022948-3653.5 • GALEX ASC J023150.99-364019.0 | |
IC 1816 is a bar-spiral galaxy with an active nucleus of the Hubble type SBab in the constellation Fornax in the southern sky . It is estimated to be 223 million light years away from the Milky Way and has a diameter of around 90,000 ly.
In the same area of the sky is the galaxy NGC 964 .
The object was discovered by Lewis Swift on October 12, 1896 .