IC 218

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Galaxy
IC 218
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Constellation whale
Position
equinoxJ2000.0 , epoch : J2000.0
Right ascension 02 h 17 m 07.3 s
declination + 01 ° 16 ′ 57 ″
Appearance
Morphological type Sbc  
Brightness  (visual) 14.9 mag
Brightness  (B-band) 15.7 mag
Angular expansion 0.8 ′ × 0.2 ′
Position angle 77 °
Surface brightness 12.8 mag / arcmin²
Physical data
Redshift 0.021630 ± 0.000183  
Radial velocity 6485 ± 55 km / s  
Stroke distance
v rad  / H 0
(291 ± 21)  ·  10 6  ly
(89.2 ± 6.3)  Mpc 
history
discovery Stéphane Javelle
Discovery date December 26, 1893
Catalog names
IC  218 • PGC  8716 • MCG  + 00-06-61 • 2MASX  J02170726 + 0116570 •

IC 218 is a spiral galaxy of Hubble type Sbc? in the constellation whale in the southern sky . It is an estimated 291 million light years away from the Milky Way and has a diameter of about 70,000 ly. Together with NGC 867 , it forms a gravitationally bound galaxy pair.

The object was discovered by Stéphane Javelle on December 26, 1893 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. a b c d NASA / IPAC EXTRAGALACTIC DATABASE
  2. a b c d e SEDS : IC 218
  3. Seligman