IC 2500
| Galaxy IC 2500 |
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| AladinLite | |
| Constellation | Little lion |
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Position equinox : J2000.0 , epoch : J2000.0 |
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| Right ascension | 09 h 42 m 23.4 s |
| declination | + 36 ° 20 ′ 59 ″ |
| Appearance | |
| Morphological type | Sbc |
| Brightness (visual) | 14.3 mag |
| Brightness (B-band) | 15.1 mag |
| Angular expansion | 1.1 ′ × 0.3 ′ |
| Position angle | 165 ° |
| Surface brightness | 13.5 mag / arcmin² |
| Physical data | |
| Redshift | 0.022095 ± 0.000077 |
| Radial velocity | 6624 ± 23 km / s |
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Stroke distance v rad / H 0 |
(295 ± 21) · 10 6 ly (90.5 ± 6.3) Mpc |
| history | |
| discovery | Guillaume Bigourdan |
| Discovery date | February 27, 1897 |
| Catalog names | |
| IC 2500 • PGC 27748 • CGCG 181-083 • 182-001 • MCG 06-21-074 • 2MASX J09422335 + 3620591 • GALEXASC J094223.47 + 362057.7 • LDCE 668 NED002 | |
IC 2500 is a spiral galaxy of Hubble type Sab in the constellation Leo Minor at the northern sky . It is estimated to be 295 million light-years away from the Milky Way and has a diameter of about 95,000 ly
. a. the galaxies NGC 2955 , NGC 2965 , NGC 2971 .
The object was discovered by Guillaume Bigourdan on February 27, 1897 .