IC 1945
| Galaxy IC 1945 |
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| AladinLite | |
| Constellation | Pendulum clock |
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Position equinox : J2000.0 , epoch : J2000.0 |
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| Right ascension | 03 h 29 m 16.5 s |
| declination | -52 ° 37 ′ 38 ″ |
| Appearance | |
| Morphological type | S0 |
| Brightness (visual) | 15.0 mag |
| Brightness (B-band) | 16.0 mag |
| Angular expansion | 0.80 x 0.2 |
| Position angle | 129 ° |
| Surface brightness | 12.9 mag / arcmin² |
| Physical data | |
| Affiliation | Abell 3128 |
| Redshift | 0.061599 +/- 0.000180 |
| Radial velocity | 18,467 +/- 54 km / s |
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Stroke distance v rad / H 0 |
(818 ± 57) · 10 6 Lj (250.9 ± 17.6) Mpc |
| history | |
| discovery | DeLisle Stewart |
| Discovery date | October 14, 1898 |
| Catalog names | |
| IC 1945 • PGC 12970 • ESO 155-G038 • 2MASX J03291659-5237384 • | |
IC 1945 is a lens-shaped galaxy of the Hubble type S0 in the constellation Pendulum Clock in the southern sky . It is estimated to be 818 million light years away from the Milky Way and has a disk diameter of around 200,000 ly. It forms an optical triple
with the galaxies IC 1946 and 2MASX J03292351-5237274 .
The object was discovered by DeLisle Stewart on October 14, 1898 .