IC 4459
| Galaxy IC 4459 |
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| AladinLite | |
| Constellation | Bear keeper |
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Position equinox : J2000.0 , epoch : J2000.0 |
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| Right ascension | 14 h 34 m 32.2 s |
| declination | + 30 ° 58 ′ 29 ″ |
| Appearance | |
| Morphological type | Sb? |
| Brightness (visual) | 14.7 mag |
| Brightness (B-band) | 15.5 mag |
| Angular expansion | 0.50 × 0.2 |
| Position angle | 10 ° |
| Surface brightness | 12.1 mag / arcmin² |
| Physical data | |
| Affiliation | HOLM 662A |
| Redshift | 0.029471 ± 0.000103 |
| Radial velocity | 8835 ± 31 km / s |
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Stroke distance v rad / H 0 |
(398 ± 28) · 10 6 ly (122.1 ± 8.6) Mpc |
| history | |
| discovery | Stéphane Javelle |
| Discovery date | July 9, 1896 |
| Catalog names | |
| IC 4459 • PGC 52087 • CGCG 163-083 • MCG + 05-34-074 • 2MASX J14343217 + 3058290 • CG 1243 | |
IC 4459 is a spiral galaxy of Hubble type Sb in the constellation Bootes the northern sky . It is estimated to be 398 million light-years away from the Milky Way and has a diameter of about 60,000 ly
. a. the galaxies NGC 5672 and IC 4460 .
The object was discovered by Stéphane Javelle on July 9, 1896 .
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Attention: The sorting key "IC 4459" overwrites the previously used key "IC4459".