IC 4012
| Galaxy IC 4012 |
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| SDSS recording | |
| AladinLite | |
| Constellation | Berenike's hair |
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Position equinox : J2000.0 , epoch : J2000.0 |
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| Right ascension | 13 h 00 m 08.0 s |
| declination | + 28 ° 04 ′ 43 ″ |
| Appearance | |
| Morphological type | E. |
| Brightness (visual) | 15.0 mag |
| Brightness (B-band) | 16.0 mag |
| Angular expansion | 0.30 × 0.2 |
| Position angle | 135 ° |
| Surface brightness | 12.0 mag / arcmin² |
| Physical data | |
| Affiliation | Abell 1656 |
| Redshift | 0.024243 ± 0.000025 |
| Radial velocity | 7268 ± 7 km / s |
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Stroke distance v rad / H 0 |
(326 ± 23) · 10 6 ly (99.8 ± 7) Mpc |
| history | |
| discovery | Hermann Albert Kobold |
| Discovery date | May 11, 1896 |
| Catalog names | |
| IC 4012 • PGC 44714 • CGCG 160-244 • 2MASX J13000803 + 2804422 • | |
IC 4012 is an elliptical galaxy of Hubble type E in the constellation Coma Berenices the northern sky . It is an estimated 326 million light years from the Milky Way and has a disk diameter of about 30,000 ly.
The object was discovered by Hermann Kobold on May 11, 1896 .