IC 4881
| Galaxy IC 4881 |
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| AladinLite | |
| Constellation | telescope |
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Position equinox : J2000.0 , epoch : J2000.0 |
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| Right ascension | 19 h 40 m 26.0 s |
| declination | -55 ° 51 ′ 28 ″ |
| Appearance | |
| Morphological type | SB (s) bc? |
| Brightness (visual) | 13.8 mag |
| Brightness (B-band) | 14.6 mag |
| Angular expansion | 0.90 × 0.5 |
| Position angle | 156 ° |
| Surface brightness | 12.8 mag / arcmin² |
| Physical data | |
| Redshift | 0.017869 ± 0.000150 |
| Radial velocity | 5357 ± 45 km / s |
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Stroke distance v rad / H 0 |
(237 ± 17) · 10 6 ly (72.6 ± 5.1) Mpc |
| history | |
| discovery | DeLisle Stewart |
| Discovery date | 17th September 1901 |
| Catalog names | |
| IC 4881 • PGC 63506 • ESO 185-008 • IRAS 19363-5558 • 2MASX J19402602-5551277 • SGC 193622-5558.4 • LDCE 1383 NED002 | |
IC 4881 is a bar-spiral galaxy of the Hubble type SBbc in the constellation Telescope in the southern sky . It is estimated to be 237 million light years away from the Milky Way and has a diameter of around 65,000 ly.
In the same area of the sky are the galaxies IC 4880 , IC 4882 , IC 4883 .
The object was discovered by DeLisle Stewart on September 17, 1901 .