IC 3600

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Galaxy
IC 3600
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SDSS recording
SDSS recording
AladinLite
Constellation Berenike's hair
Position
equinoxJ2000.0 , epoch : J2000.0
Right ascension 12 h 37 m 41.1 s
declination + 27 ° 07 ′ 46 ″
Appearance
Morphological type S0? / HII  
Brightness  (visual) 14.9 mag
Brightness  (B-band) 15.9 mag
Angular expansion 0.50 '× 0.4'
Surface brightness 13.0 mag / arcmin²
Physical data
Redshift 0.015467 ± 0.000009  
Radial velocity 4637 ± 3 km / s  
Stroke distance
v rad  / H 0
(207 ± 14)  ·  10 6  ly
(63.5 ± 4.4)  Mpc 
history
discovery Max Wolf
Discovery date March 23, 1903
Catalog names
IC  3600 • PGC  42161 • CGCG  159-035 • MCG  + 05-30-041 • IRAS  F12352 + 2724 • KUG  1235 + 274 • 2MASX  J12374116 + 2707442 • Mrk  650 • GALEX ASC J123741.09 + 270745.5 • Haro 30

IC 3600 also Haro 30 is a lenticular galaxy with extensive star formation from Hubble type S0 in the constellation Coma Berenices the northern sky . It is estimated to be 207 million light years from the Milky Way and about 30,000 light years across.
In the same area of ​​the sky are u. a. the galaxies IC 3560 , IC 3585 , IC 3590 , IC 3610 .

The object was discovered by Max Wolf on March 23, 1903 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. a b c d NASA / IPAC EXTRAGALACTIC DATABASE
  2. a b c d e SEDS : IC 3600
  3. Seligman