IC 5123

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Galaxy
IC 5123
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Constellation Indus
Position
equinoxJ2000.0 , epoch : J2000.0
Right ascension 21 h 44 m 49.3 s
declination -72 ° 25 ′ 15 ″
Appearance
Morphological type (R) SAB (r) off  
Brightness  (visual) 13.6 mag
Brightness  (B-band) 14.4 mag
Angular expansion 1.50 '× 0.5'
Position angle 18 °
Surface brightness 13.1 mag / arcmin²
Physical data
Redshift 0.031775 +/- 0.000150  
Radial velocity 9526 +/- 45 km / s  
Stroke distance
v rad  / H 0
(420 ± 29)  x  10 6  ly
(128.9 ± 9.0)  Mpc 
history
discovery DeLisle Stewart
Discovery date September 28, 1900
Catalog names
IC  5123 • PGC  67283 • ESO  048-006 • IRAS  F21401-7239 • 2MASX  J21444934-7225148 • SGC  214016-7239.1 • LEDA 67283

IC 5123 is a bar-spiral galaxy of the Hubble type SBbc in the constellation Indians in the southern sky . It is estimated to be 420 million light years from the Milky Way and about 190,000 ly in diameter.

The object was discovered by DeLisle Stewart on September 28, 1900 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. a b c d NASA / IPAC EXTRAGALACTIC DATABASE
  2. a b c d e f SEDS : IC 5123
  3. Seligman