IC 2174
| Galaxy IC 2174 |
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| AladinLite | |
| Constellation | giraffe |
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Position equinox : J2000.0 , epoch : J2000.0 |
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| Right ascension | 07 h 09 m 05.61 s |
| declination | + 75 ° 21 ′ 10.9 ″ |
| Appearance | |
| Morphological type | (R ') SB (r) a: |
| Brightness (visual) | 13.5 likes |
| Brightness (B-band) | 14.3 mag |
| Angular expansion | 0.90 'x 0.7' |
| Position angle | 42 ° |
| Surface brightness | 13.2 mag / arcmin² |
| Physical data | |
| Redshift | 0.012655 ± 0.000090 |
| Radial velocity | 3794 ± 27 km / s |
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Stroke distance v rad / H 0 |
(175 ± 12) · 10 6 ly (53.8 ± 3.8) Mpc |
| history | |
| discovery | Guillaume Bigourdan |
| Discovery date | December 24, 1891 |
| Catalog names | |
| IC 2174 • UGC 3666 • PGC 20252 • CGCG 348-030 • MCG + 13-06-002 • IRAS F07023 + 7526 • 2MASX J07090560 + 7521108 • 2MASS J07090564 + 7521109 • GALEX ASC J070905.75 + 752111.2 • LDCE 478 | |
IC 2174 is a spiral galaxy of Hubble type S in the constellation Giraffe at the northern sky . It is estimated to be 175 million light years from the Milky Way and about 45,000 light years across. Presumably it forms a gravitationally bound galaxy pair together with NGC 2314 .
The object was discovered by Guillaume Bigourdan on December 24, 1891 .