NGC 1730
| Galaxy NGC 1730 / IC 2113 |
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| AladinLite | |
| Constellation | Hare |
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Position equinox : J2000.0 , epoch : J2000.0 |
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| Right ascension | 04 h 59 m 31.8 s |
| declination | -15 ° 49 ′ 25 ″ |
| Appearance | |
| Morphological type | SB (r) a |
| Brightness (visual) | 12.3 mag |
| Brightness (B-band) | 13.2 mag |
| Angular expansion | 2.3 ′ × 1 ′ |
| Position angle | 100 ° |
| Surface brightness | 13.1 mag / arcmin² |
| Physical data | |
| Redshift | 0.013239 ± 0.000020 |
| Radial velocity | 3969 ± 6 km / s |
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Stroke distance v rad / H 0 |
(172 ± 12) · 10 6 ly (52.7 ± 3.7) Mpc |
| history | |
| discovery | Francis Leavenworth |
| Discovery date | November 14, 1885 |
| Catalog names | |
| NGC 1730 • IC 2113 • PGC 16499 • MCG -03-13-043 • IRAS 04573-1553 • 2MASX J04593187-1549252 • | |
NGC 1730 = IC 2113 is a bar-spiral galaxy of the Hubble type SBa in the constellation Lepus north of the ecliptic . It is an estimated 172 million light years away from the Milky Way and has a diameter of about 120,000 ly.
In the same area of the sky are the galaxies NGC 1710 and IC 2104 .
The object was discovered by Francis Leavenworth on November 14, 1885 .