IC 208
| Galaxy IC 208 |
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| SDSS image from IC 208 | |
| AladinLite | |
| Constellation | whale |
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Position equinox : J2000.0 , epoch : J2000.0 |
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| Right ascension | 02 h 08 m 27.7 s |
| declination | + 06 ° 23 ′ 42 ″ |
| Appearance | |
| Morphological type | SAbc |
| Brightness (visual) | 13.5 likes |
| Brightness (B-band) | 14.3 mag |
| Angular expansion | 1.30 x 1.3 |
| Surface brightness | 13.9 mag / arcmin² |
| Physical data | |
| Redshift | 0.011755 ± 0.000097 |
| Radial velocity | 3524 ± 29 km / s |
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Stroke distance v rad / H 0 |
(160 ± 11) · 10 6 ly (49 ± 3.5) Mpc |
| history | |
| discovery | Guillaume Bigourdan |
| Discovery date | December 3, 1888 |
| Catalog names | |
| IC 208 • UGC 1635 • PGC 8167 • MCG + 01-06-044 • 2MASX J02082773 + 0623415 • LDCE 0140 NED002 | |
IC 208 is a spiral galaxy of Hubble type SABC in the constellation whale at the southern sky in face-on position and is estimated to be 160 million light-years from the Milky Way center. It is in optical proximity to NGC 825 .
The object was discovered by Guillaume Bigourdan on December 3, 1888 .