IC 2375

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Galaxy
IC 2375
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Constellation Aft deck of the ship
Position
equinoxJ2000.0 , epoch : J2000.0
Right ascension 08 h 26 m 19.7 s
declination -13 ° 18 ′ 11 ″
Appearance
Morphological type SB (s) b  
Brightness  (visual) 13.7 mag
Brightness  (B-band) 14.5 mag
Angular expansion 1.90 'x 0.4'
Position angle 83 °
Surface brightness 13.3 mag / arcmin²
Physical data
Redshift 0.019624 ± 0.000067  
Radial velocity 5883 ± 20 km / s  
Stroke distance
v rad  / H 0
(254 ± 18)  x  10 6  ly
(78.0 ± 5.5)  Mpc 
history
discovery Herbert A. Howe
Discovery date February 22, 1898
Catalog names
IC  2375 • PGC  23672 • MCG  -02-22-014 • 2MASX  J08261966-1318113 • NVSS J082619-131812 • WISE A J082619.71-131810.6 • LDCE 574 NED002 • NVSS J082619-131812

IC 2375 is a bar-spiral galaxy of the Hubble type SBb in the constellation Puppis in the southern sky . It is around 254 million light years away from the Milky Way and has a diameter of around 150,000 light years . Presumably it forms a gravitationally bound galaxy trio together with IC 2377 and IC 2379 .

The object was discovered on February 22, 1898 by Herbert Alonzo Howe .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. a b c d NASA / IPAC EXTRAGALACTIC DATABASE
  2. a b c d e f SEDS : IC 2375
  3. Seligman