IC 2799
| Galaxy IC 2799 |
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| AladinLite | |
| Constellation | lion |
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Position equinox : J2000.0 , epoch : J2000.0 |
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| Right ascension | 11 h 24 m 26.7 s |
| declination | + 13 ° 50 ′ 57 ″ |
| Appearance | |
| Morphological type | SB |
| Brightness (visual) | 16.6 mag |
| Brightness (B-band) | 17.4 likes |
| Angular expansion | 0.3 ′ × 0.2 ′ |
| Position angle | 160 ° |
| Surface brightness | 13.4 mag / arcmin² |
| Physical data | |
| Redshift | 0.038011 ± 0.000075 |
| Radial velocity | 11,395 ± 22 km / s |
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Stroke distance v rad / H 0 |
(506 ± 36) x 10 6 ly (155.0 ± 10.9) Mpc |
| history | |
| discovery | Max Wolf |
| Discovery date | March 27, 1906 |
| Catalog names | |
| IC 2799 • PGC 1442248 • 2MASX J11242669 + 1350564 • AGC 215293 • NSA 74920 | |
IC 2799 is a bar-spiral galaxy of the Hubble type SB in the constellation Leo on the ecliptic . It is estimated to be 506 million light years from the Milky Way and about 45,000 light years across.
The galaxies IC 2785 , IC 2786 , IC 2787 , IC 2819 are located in the same area of the sky .
The object was discovered on March 27, 1906 by the German astronomer Max Wolf .