IC 5053
| Galaxy IC 5053 |
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| AladinLite | |
| Constellation | peacock |
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Position equinox : J2000.0 , epoch : J2000.0 |
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| Right ascension | 20 h 53 m 36.2 s |
| declination | -71 ° 08 ′ 28 ″ |
| Appearance | |
| Morphological type | Sa: / sp |
| Brightness (visual) | 12.8 mag |
| Brightness (B-band) | 13.7 mag |
| Angular expansion | 1.60 × 0.6 |
| Position angle | 55 ° |
| Surface brightness | 12.6 mag / arcmin² |
| Physical data | |
| Redshift | 0.014170 ± 0.000017 |
| Radial velocity | 4248 ± 5 km / s |
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Stroke distance v rad / H 0 |
(185 ± 13) · 10 6 ly (56.7 ± 4) Mpc |
| history | |
| discovery | DeLisle Stewart |
| Discovery date | September 26, 1900 |
| Catalog names | |
| IC 5053 • PGC 65662 • ESO 074-G18 • IRAS 20485-7119 • 2MASX J20533616-7108280 • SGC 204838-7119.7 • LDCE 1418 NED003 | |
IC 5053 is a spiral galaxy of Hubble type Sa in the constellation Peacock on southern sky . It is estimated to be 185 million light years from the Milky Way and about 90,000 light years in diameter. Possibly it forms a gravitationally bound galaxy pair together with IC 5054 .
In the same area of the sky are u. a. the galaxies IC 5048 , IC 5051 , IC 5060 .
The object was discovered on September 26, 1900 by the astronomer DeLisle Stewart and later listed by Johan Dreyer in his index catalog .