IC 4970
| Galaxy IC 4970 |
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| The galaxies NGC 6872 (bottom) and IC 4970 (top) captured by the Hubble Space Telescope | |
| AladinLite | |
| Constellation | peacock |
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Position equinox : J2000.0 , epoch : J2000.0 |
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| Right ascension | 20 h 16 m 57.3 s |
| declination | -70 ° 44 ′ 59 ″ |
| Appearance | |
| Morphological type | SA0- / pec: |
| Brightness (visual) | 13.6 mag |
| Brightness (B-band) | 14.6 mag |
| Angular expansion | 0.7 ′ × 0.2 ′ |
| Position angle | 6 ° |
| Surface brightness | 11.5 mag / arcmin² |
| Physical data | |
| Redshift | 0.015728 ± 0.000147 |
| Radial velocity | 4715 ± 44 km / s |
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Stroke distance v rad / H 0 |
(206 ± 15) · 10 6 ly (63.1 ± 4.5) Mpc |
| history | |
| discovery | DeLisle Stewart |
| Discovery date | September 21, 1900 |
| Catalog names | |
| IC 4970 • PGC 64415 • ESO 073-033 • SGC 201144-7054.2 • VV 297b • AM 2011-705 | |
IC 4970 is a lens-shaped galaxy of the Hubble type SB0a in the constellation Peacock in the southern sky . It is an estimated 206 million light years from the Milky Way . Together with the much larger spiral galaxy NGC 6872 , it forms an interacting galaxy pair.
The galaxies NGC 6876 , IC 4967 , IC 4971 , IC 4972 are in the same area of the sky .
The object was discovered on September 21, 1900 by the American astronomer DeLisle Stewart .
Web links
Commons : IC 4970 - Collection of Pictures, Videos and Audio Files
