IC 3500
| Galaxy IC 3500 |
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| IC 3500 | |
| AladinLite | |
| Constellation | Berenike's hair |
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Position equinox : J2000.0 , epoch : J2000.0 |
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| 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 |
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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 .