IC 4040
| Galaxy IC 4040 |
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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 37.9 s |
| declination | + 28 ° 03 ′ 26 ″ |
| Appearance | |
| Morphological type | Sdm: / HII |
| Brightness (visual) | 14.8 mag |
| Brightness (B-band) | 15.4 mag |
| Angular expansion | 1 ′ × 0.3 ′ |
| Position angle | 153 ° |
| Surface brightness | 13.2 mag / arcmin² |
| Physical data | |
| Affiliation | Abell 1656 |
| Redshift | 0.026151 ± 0.000017 |
| Radial velocity | 7840 ± 5 km / s |
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Stroke distance v rad / H 0 |
(351 ± 24) x 10 6 ly (107.6 ± 7.5) Mpc |
| history | |
| discovery | Guillaume Bigourdan |
| Discovery date | April 12, 1891 |
| Catalog names | |
| IC 4040 • PGC 44789 • CGCG 160-252 • MCG + 05-31-085 • IRAS 12582 + 2819 • KUG 1258 + 283 • 2MASX J13003794 + 2803266 • 2XMM J130038.0 + 280325 | |
IC 4040 is a bar-spiral galaxy with extensive star formation regions of the Hubble type SBcd in the constellation Coma Berenices in the northern sky . It is an estimated 351 million light years away from the Milky Way and has a diameter of about 105,000 ly. The galaxy is considered a member of the Coma galaxy cluster Abell 1656 .
The galaxies IC 4026 , IC 4041 , IC 4045 , IC 4051 are located in the same area of the sky .
The object was discovered on April 12, 1891 by Guillaume Bigourdan .