IC 5168
| Galaxy IC 5168 |
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| AladinLite | |
| Constellation | Southern fish |
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Position equinox : J2000.0 , epoch : J2000.0 |
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| Right ascension | 22 h 08 m 45.5 s |
| declination | -27 ° 51 ′ 23 ″ |
| Appearance | |
| Morphological type | SB (s) c: / sp |
| Brightness (visual) | 14.8 mag |
| Brightness (B-band) | 15.5 mag |
| Angular expansion | 1.3 ′ × 0.3 ′ |
| Position angle | 144 ° |
| Surface brightness | 13.6 mag / arcmin² |
| Physical data | |
| Redshift | 0.016201 ± 0.000027 |
| Radial velocity | 4857 ± 8 km / s |
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Stroke distance v rad / H 0 |
(219 ± 15) x 10 6 ly (67.2 ± 4.7) Mpc |
| history | |
| discovery | Lewis Swift |
| Discovery date | August 31, 1897 |
| Catalog names | |
| IC 5168 • PGC 68133 • ESO 467-011 • MCG -05-52-033 • 2MASX J2208455-275123 • SGC 220555-2806.1 • GALEX ASC J220845.53-275122.9 • LEDA 68133 | |
IC 5168 is a bar-spiral galaxy of the Hubble type SBc in the constellation Piscis Austrinus in the southern sky . It is estimated to be 219 million light years away from the Milky Way and has a diameter of about 85,000 ly.
In the same area of the sky is the galaxy NGC 7214 .
The object was discovered by Lewis Swift on August 31, 1897 .