IC 3077
| Galaxy IC 3077 |
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| AladinLite | |
| Constellation | Berenike's hair |
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Position equinox : J2000.0 , epoch : J2000.0 |
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| Right ascension | 12 h 15 m 56.3 s |
| declination | + 14 ° 25 ′ 59 ″ |
| Appearance | |
| Morphological type | Sd / HII |
| Brightness (visual) | 14.1 mag |
| Brightness (B-band) | 14.8 mag |
| Angular expansion | 0.90 × 0.7 |
| Position angle | 0 ° |
| Surface brightness | 13.4 mag / arcmin² |
| Physical data | |
| Affiliation | Virgo cluster |
| Redshift | 0.004707 +/- 0.000033 |
| Radial velocity | 1411 +/- 10 km / s |
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Stroke distance v rad / H 0 |
(61 ± 4) · 10 6 ly (18.6 ± 1.3) Mpc |
| history | |
| discovery | Royal Harwood Frost |
| Discovery date | May 7, 1904 |
| Catalog names | |
| IC 3077 • UGC 7285 • PGC 39256 • CGCG 098-118 • MCG + 03-31-085 • 2MASX J12155633 + 1425585 • VCC 170 • USGC U490 NED378 | |
IC 3077 is a spiral dwarf galaxy with extensive star formation areas of the Hubble type Scd in the constellation Coma Berenices in the northern sky . It is an estimated 61 million light years away from the Milky Way and has a diameter of about 15,000 ly. Listed under the catalog name VCC 170 as a member of the Virgo galaxy cluster .
The galaxies IC 3065 , IC 3080 , IC 3093 , IC 3096 are located in the same area of the sky .
The object was discovered by Royal Harwood Frost on May 7, 1904 .