IC 3808
| Galaxy IC 3808 |
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| SDSS recording | |
| AladinLite | |
| Constellation | Hunting dogs |
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Position equinox : J2000.0 , epoch : J2000.0 |
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| Right ascension | 12 h 48 m 58.7 s |
| declination | + 40 ° 35 ′ 45 ″ |
| Appearance | |
| Morphological type | SBc / LINER |
| Brightness (visual) | 14.9 mag |
| Brightness (B-band) | 15.7 mag |
| Angular expansion | 0.70 '× 0.3' |
| Position angle | 160 ° |
| Surface brightness | 13.1 mag / arcmin² |
| Physical data | |
| Redshift | 0.016426 ± 0.000175 |
| Radial velocity | 4924 ± 52 km / s |
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Stroke distance v rad / H 0 |
(222 ± 16) · 10 6 ly (68.1 ± 4.8) Mpc |
| history | |
| discovery | Max Wolf |
| Discovery date | March 21, 1903 |
| Catalog names | |
| IC 3808 • PGC 43312 • CGCG 216-032 • MCG + 07-26-055 • 2MASX J12485871 + 4035455 • Mrk 445 • GALEX ASC J124858.74 + 403545.9 | |
IC 3808 is a bar-spiral galaxy with an active nucleus of the Hubble type S in the constellation Hounds in the northern sky . It is an estimated 222 million light years from the Milky Way and is approximately 45,000 light years across.
In the same area of the sky are u. a. the galaxies IC 3758 , IC 3778 , IC 3783 , IC 3795 .
The object was discovered by Max Wolf on March 21, 1903 .