IC 241

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Galaxy
IC 241
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SDSS recording
SDSS recording
AladinLite
Constellation whale
Position
equinoxJ2000.0 , epoch : J2000.0
Right ascension 02 h 37 m 54.5 s
declination + 02 ° 19 ′ 41 ″
Appearance
Morphological type S?  
Brightness  (visual) 13.6 mag
Brightness  (B-band) 14.4 mag
Angular expansion 1.10 x 0.7
Position angle 150 °
Surface brightness 13.2 mag / arcmin²
Physical data
Redshift 0.023169 ± 0.000070  
Radial velocity 6946 ± 21 km / s  
Stroke distance
v rad  / H 0
(311 ± 22)  x  10 6  ly
(95.4 ± 6.7)  Mpc 
history
discovery Guillaume Bigourdan
Discovery date November 19, 1886
Catalog names
IC  241 • UGC  2115 • PGC  9969 • MCG  + 00-07-058 • 2MASX  J02375452 + 0219410 • GALEX ASC J023754.47 + 021940.1 • LDCE 179 NED010

IC 241 is a spiral galaxy of Hubble type S in the constellation Cetus south of the ecliptic . It is estimated at 311 million light years from the Milky Way and has a diameter of about 100,000 ly.
In the same area of ​​the sky are the galaxies NGC 1007 , NGC 1009 , NGC 1016 , NGC 1020 , among others .

The object was discovered on November 19, 1886 by Guillaume Bigourdan .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. a b c d NASA / IPAC EXTRAGALACTIC DATABASE
  2. a b c d e SEDS : IC 241
  3. Seligman