IC 2550
| Galaxy IC 2550 |
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| SDSS recording | |
| AladinLite | |
| Constellation | Little lion |
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Position equinox : J2000.0 , epoch : J2000.0 |
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| Right ascension | 10 h 10 m 27.9 s |
| declination | + 27 ° 57 ′ 22 ″ |
| Appearance | |
| Morphological type | SAB (rs) b: |
| Brightness (visual) | 13.7 mag |
| Brightness (B-band) | 14.5 mag |
| Angular expansion | 1.00 × 0.8 |
| Position angle | 135 ° |
| Surface brightness | 13.3 mag / arcmin² |
| Physical data | |
| Redshift | 0.015971 ± 0.000030 |
| Radial velocity | 4788 ± 9 km / s |
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Stroke distance v rad / H 0 |
(212 ± 15) · 10 6 ly (64.9 ± 4.5) Mpc |
| diameter | 55,000 ly |
| history | |
| discovery | Stéphane Javelle |
| Discovery date | May 7, 1900 |
| Catalog names | |
| IC 2550 • UGC 5484 • PGC 29615 • CGCG 153-027 • MCG + 05-24-023 • IRAS 10076 + 2811 • 2MASX J10102794 + 2757221 • | |
IC 2550 is a bar-spiral galaxy of the Hubble type SBbc in the constellation Little Leo in the northern sky . It is around 212 million light years away from the Milky Way and has a diameter of around 65,000 light years .
The object was discovered on May 7, 1900 by Stéphane Javelle .