IC 1870
| Galaxy IC 1870 |
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| AladinLite | |
| Constellation | Eridanus |
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Position equinox : J2000.0 , epoch : J2000.0 |
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| 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 |
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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 .