IC 3500

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Galaxy
IC 3500
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IC 3500 [1]
IC 3500
AladinLite
Constellation Berenike's hair
Position
equinoxJ2000.0 , epoch : J2000.0
Right ascension 12 h 33 m 49.670 s
declination + 13 ° 57 ′ 46.00 ″
Appearance
Morphological type SBc  
Brightness  (visual) 14.4 mag
Brightness  (B-band) 15.1 mag
Angular expansion 0.6 ′ × 0.4 ′
Position angle 95 °
Surface brightness 12.7 mag / arcmin²
Physical data
Affiliation Virgo cluster (??)  
Redshift 0.0020417 ± 0.000007  
Radial velocity 6121 ± 2 km / s  
Stroke distance
v rad  / H 0
(271 ± 19)  x  10 6  ly
(83.2 ± 5.8)  Mpc 
history
discovery Royal H. Frost
Discovery date May 10, 1904
Catalog names
IC  3500 • PGC  41751 • CGCG  070-171 • VCC  1526 • NSA 170526 • SDSS J123349.66 + 135746.0 • VPC 920

IC 3500 is a bar-spiral galaxy of the Hubble type SBc with extensive star formation areas in the constellation Coma Berenices in the northern sky . It is estimated to be 271 million light years from the Milky Way and about 50,000 light years in diameter. It is listed as a member of the Virgo galaxy cluster under catalog number VCC 1526 , but it is too far away for that. In the same area of ​​the sky are u. a. the galaxies IC 3476 , IC 3478 , IC 3520 , IC 3523 .

The object was discovered by Royal Harwood Frost on May 10, 1904 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Aladin Lite
  2. a b c d e NASA / IPAC EXTRAGALACTIC DATABASE
  3. a b c d e f SEDS : IC 3500
  4. Seligman