IC 3008
| Galaxy IC 3008 |
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| SDSS image of IC 3008 with LEDA 1434385 (below) | |
| AladinLite | |
| Constellation | Berenike's hair |
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Position equinox : J2000.0 , epoch : J2000.0 |
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| Right ascension | 12 h 07 m 51.8 s |
| declination | + 13 ° 34 ′ 38 ″ |
| Appearance | |
| Morphological type | Sb? |
| Brightness (visual) | 14.2 mag |
| Brightness (B-band) | 15.0 mag |
| Angular expansion | 0.9 ′ × 0.4 ′ |
| Position angle | 24 ° |
| Surface brightness | 12.9 mag / arcmin² |
| Physical data | |
| Redshift | 0.023273 ± 0.000007 |
| Radial velocity | 6977 ± 2 km / s |
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Stroke distance v rad / H 0 |
(309 ± 22) x 10 6 ly (94.7 ± 6.6) Mpc |
| history | |
| discovery | Royal Harwood Frost |
| Discovery date | May 7, 1904 |
| Catalog names | |
| IC 3008 • PGC 038512 • CGCG 069-055 • MCG + 02-31-031 • 2MASX J1207518 + 133438 • | |
IC 3008 is a spiral galaxy of the Hubble type Sb in the constellation Haar der Berenike in the northern sky . It is estimated to be 309 million light years away from the Milky Way and has a diameter of about 80,000 ly.
In the same area of the sky are the galaxies IC 3004 , IC 3017 , IC 3018 , IC 3019 .
The object was discovered by Royal Frost on May 7, 1904 .