IC 1870

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Galaxy
IC 1870
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Constellation Eridanus
Position
equinoxJ2000.0 , epoch : J2000.0
Right ascension 02 h 57 m 53.5 s
declination -02 ° 20 ′ 49 ″
Appearance
Morphological type SB (s) w  
Brightness  (visual) 13.2 mag
Brightness  (B-band) 13.8 mag
Angular expansion 2.8 ′ × 1.6 ′
Position angle 132 °
Surface brightness 14.7 mag / arcmin²
Physical data
Redshift 0.005134 ± 0.000013  
Radial velocity 1539 ± 4 km / s  
Stroke distance
v rad  / H 0
(68 ± 5)  x  10 6  ly
(21.0 ± 1.5)  Mpc 
history
discovery Edward E. Barnard
Catalog names
IC  1870 • PGC  11202 • MCG  -01-08-020 • IRAS  02553-0232 • KUG  0255-025 • 2MASX  J02575353-0220496 • HIPASS J0257-02

IC 1870 is a bar-spiral galaxy of the Hubble type SBm in the constellation Eridanus south of the celestial equator . It is an estimated 68 million light years away from the Milky Way and has a disk diameter of about 55,000 light years.

The object was discovered by Edward Emerson Barnard .

See also

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. a b c d NASA / IPAC EXTRAGALACTIC DATABASE
  2. a b c d e f SEDS : IC 1870
  3. Seligman