IC 2024

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Galaxy
IC 2024
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Constellation network
Position
equinoxJ2000.0 , epoch : J2000.0
Right ascension 04 h 00 m 04.0 s
declination -53 ° 22 ′ 19 ″
Appearance
Morphological type SB (s) cd? / sp  
Brightness  (visual) 14.8 mag
Brightness  (B-band) 15.5 mag
Angular expansion 1.10 x 0.3
Position angle 29 °
Surface brightness 13.4 mag / arcmin²
Physical data
Redshift 0.038990 +/- 0.000284  
Radial velocity 11,689 +/- 85 km / s  
Stroke distance
v rad  / H 0
(515 ± 36)  x  10 6  ly
(157.9 ± 11.1)  Mpc 
history
discovery DeLisle Stewart
Discovery date December 7, 1899
Catalog names
IC  2024 • PGC  14249 • ESO  156-G026 • IRAS  03588-5330 • 2MASX  J04000411-5322153 • SGC  035848-5330.8 • LEDA 14249

IC 2024 is a bar-spiral galaxy of the Hubble type SBc in the constellation Netz in the southern sky . It is estimated to be 515 million light years away from the Milky Way and has a diameter of about 170,000 ly.
In the same area of ​​the sky are the galaxies IC 2021 , IC 2023 , IC 2025 , IC 2029 .

The object was discovered by DeLisle Stewart on December 7, 1899 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. a b c d NASA / IPAC EXTRAGALACTIC DATABASE
  2. a b c d e f SEDS : IC 2024
  3. Seligman