IC 2209
| Galaxy IC 2209 |
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![NGC 2460, IC 2209 (top) & PGC 22269 (bottom) [1] taken with the 81 cm reflecting telescope of the Mount Lemmon Observatory](https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Datei:N2460s.jpg)
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| NGC 2460, IC 2209 ( top ) & PGC 22269 ( bottom ) taken with the 81 cm reflecting telescope of the Mount Lemmon Observatory | |
| AladinLite | |
| Constellation | giraffe |
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Position equinox : J2000.0 , epoch : J2000.0 |
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| Right ascension | 07 h 56 m 14.2 s |
| declination | + 60 ° 18 ′ 15 ″ |
| Appearance | |
| Morphological type | SB (rs) b: / Sbrst |
| Brightness (visual) | 13.5 likes |
| Brightness (B-band) | 14.3 mag |
| Angular expansion | 1.1 ′ × 0.9 ′ |
| Position angle | 145 ° |
| Surface brightness | 13.3 mag / arcmin² |
| Physical data | |
| Affiliation | NGC 2460 group LGG 151 |
| Redshift | 1371 ± 1 |
| Radial velocity | 0.004574 ± 0.000005 km / s |
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Stroke distance v rad / H 0 |
(65 ± 5) x 10 6 ly (19.8 ± 1.4) Mpc |
| history | |
| discovery | Guillaume Bigourdan |
| Discovery date | February 24, 1894 |
| Catalog names | |
| IC 2209 • UGC 4093 • PGC 22232 • CGCG 286-078 • 287-008 • MCG + 10-12-017 • KUG 0751 + 604 • 2MASX J07561422 + 6018149 • Mrk 13 • | |
IC 2209 is a bar-spiral galaxy with a high rate of star formation of the Hubble type SBb in the constellation Giraffe north of the ecliptic . It is an estimated 65 million light years from the Milky Way and about 20,000 light years across . It probably forms a bound galaxy pair with NGC 2460 .
Together with NGC 2460, PGC 22508 , PGC 22524 and PGC 22561 , it forms the small NGC 2460 group .
The object was discovered by Guillaume Bigourdan on February 24, 1894 .