IC 1876
| Galaxy IC 1876 |
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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 | 03 h 04 m 32.3 s |
| declination | -27 ° 27 ′ 38 ″ |
| Appearance | |
| Morphological type | SA0 +? / pec |
| Brightness (visual) | 13.3 mag |
| Brightness (B-band) | 14.3 mag |
| Angular expansion | 1.10 × 1.0 |
| Position angle | 3 ° |
| Surface brightness | 13.3 mag / arcmin² |
| Physical data | |
| Redshift | 0.021835 +/- 0.000057 |
| Radial velocity | 6546 +/- 17 km / s |
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Stroke distance v rad / H 0 |
(289 ± 20) x 10 6 ly (88.5 ± 6.2) Mpc |
| history | |
| discovery | Lewis Swift |
| Discovery date | September 16, 1896 |
| Catalog names | |
| IC 1876 • PGC 11577 • ESO 417-013 • MCG -05-08-013 • 2MASX J03043228-2727380 • SGC 30223-2739.2 • | |
IC 1876 is a lenticular galaxy of the Hubble type SA0 in the constellation Fornax in the southern sky . It is estimated to be 289 million light years from the Milky Way and has a disk diameter of around 95,000 ly.
The object was discovered by Lewis Swift on September 16, 1896 .