IC 2163
| Galaxy IC 2163 |
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| The galaxies NGC 2207 (left) and IC 2163 (right) captured by the Hubble Space Telescope | |
| AladinLite | |
| Constellation | Big dog |
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Position equinox : J2000.0 , epoch : J2000.0 |
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| Right ascension | 06 h 16 m 28.0 s |
| declination | -21 ° 22 ′ 33 ″ |
| Appearance | |
| Morphological type | SB (rs) c pec |
| Brightness (visual) | 11.7 mag |
| Brightness (B-band) | 12.4 mag |
| Angular expansion | 3 ′ × 1.2 ′ |
| Position angle | 98 ° |
| Surface brightness | 12.9 mag / arcmin² |
| Physical data | |
| Redshift | 0.009223 ± 0.000067 |
| Radial velocity | (2755 ± 20) km / s |
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Stroke distance v rad / H 0 |
(116 ± 8) x 10 6 ly (35.5 ± 2.5) Mpc |
| history | |
| discovery | Herbert Alonzo Howe |
| Discovery date | February 11, 1898 |
| Catalog names | |
| IC 2163 • UGCA 125 • PGC 18751 • ESO 556-009 • MCG -04-15-021 • 2MASX J06162800-2122330 • SGC 061420-2121.4 • LDCE 0431 NED009 | |
IC 2163 is a bar-spiral galaxy in the constellation Great Dog , about 116 million light years from the Milky Way . It is currently colliding with the larger spiral galaxy NGC 2207 .
The object was discovered on February 11, 1898 by Herbert Alonzo Howe .
Web links
Commons : IC 2163 - collection of pictures, videos and audio files
- Hubble Space Telescope
- Spitzer Space Telescope ( Memento from July 24, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
- GoBlack
- SIMBAD query
- ESO: An all-seeing eye
- astronews.com: Space encounter November 8, 1999
- astronews.com: Picture of the day November 11, 2016