IC 414
| Galaxy IC 414 |
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| AladinLite | |
| Constellation | Orion |
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Position equinox : J2000.0 , epoch : J2000.0 |
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| Right ascension | 05 h 21 m 55.0 s |
| declination | + 03 ° 20 ′ 31 ″ |
| Appearance | |
| Morphological type | S? |
| Brightness (visual) | 14.3 mag |
| Brightness (B-band) | 15.1 mag |
| Angular expansion | 0.50 × 0.3 |
| Position angle | 135 ° |
| Surface brightness | 12.1 mag / arcmin² |
| Physical data | |
| Redshift | 0.014914 +/- 0.000050 |
| Radial velocity | 4471 +/- 15 km / s |
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Stroke distance v rad / H 0 |
(196 ± 14) · 10 6 ly (60.1 ± 4.2) Mpc |
| history | |
| discovery | Sherburne Wesley Burnham |
| Discovery date | November 8, 1891 |
| Catalog names | |
| IC 414 • PGC 17179 • MCG + 01-14-033 • IRAS 05192 + 0317 • 2MASX J05215497 + 0320314 • LEDA 17179 • LDCE 387 NED003 | |
IC 414 is a spiral galaxy of Hubble type S in the constellation Orion in the northern sky . It is estimated to be 196 million light-years away from the Milky Way and has a diameter of around 30,000 ly.
In the same area of the sky are the galaxies IC 409 , IC 412 , IC 413 , among others .
The object was discovered on November 8, 1891 by the American astronomer Sherburne Wesley Burnham .