IC 2079
| Galaxy IC 2079 |
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| AladinLite | |
| Constellation | Swordfish |
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Position equinox : J2000.0 , epoch : J2000.0 |
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| Right ascension | 04 h 28 m 30.8 s |
| declination | -53 ° 44 ′ 17 ″ |
| Appearance | |
| Morphological type | SB (rs) off |
| Brightness (visual) | 14.0 mag |
| Brightness (B-band) | 14.8 mag |
| Angular expansion | 1.20 × 0.4 |
| Position angle | 125 ° |
| Surface brightness | 13.1 mag / arcmin² |
| Physical data | |
| Affiliation | IC 2082 group |
| Redshift | 0.035865 ± 0.000033 |
| Radial velocity | 10,752 ± 10 km / s |
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Stroke distance v rad / H 0 |
(473 ± 33) · 10 6 ly (144.9 ± 10.1) Mpc |
| history | |
| discovery | DeLisle Stewart |
| Discovery date | December 7, 1899 |
| Catalog names | |
| IC 2079 • PGC 015200 • 015279 • ESO 157-033 • IRAS F04273-5350 • 2MASX J04283084-5344167 • SGC 042721-5350.7 • | |
IC 2079 is a bar-spiral galaxy of the Hubble type SBab in the constellation Dorado in the southern sky . It is an estimated 473 million light years away from the Milky Way and has a diameter of around 170,000 ly.
In the same area of the sky are the galaxies IC 2073 , IC 2081 , IC 2082 , IC 2083 .
The object was discovered by DeLisle Stewart on December 7, 1899 .