IC 5378
| Galaxy IC 5378 |
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| SDSS image of IC 5378-1 (below), IC 5378-2 (above) | |
| AladinLite | |
| Constellation | Pegasus |
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Position equinox : J2000.0 , epoch : J2000.0 |
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| Right ascension | 00 h 02 m 37.8 s |
| declination | + 16 ° 38 ′ 53 ″ |
| Appearance | |
| Morphological type | DBL SYS |
| Brightness (visual) | 1: 13.6 mag 2: 14.6 mag |
| Brightness (B-band) | 1: 14.6 mag 2: 15.3 mag |
| Angular expansion | 1: 1.10 ′ × 0.9 ′ 2: 1.60 ′ × 1.4 ′ |
| Position angle | 2: 177 ° |
| Surface brightness | 1: 13.7 mag / arcmin² 2: 15.3 mag / arcmin² |
| Physical data | |
| Redshift | 0.02032 |
| Radial velocity | 6093 km / s |
| distance | 278 million ly |
| history | |
| discovery | Isaac Roberts |
| Discovery date | November 17, 1895 |
| Catalog names | |
| IC 5378 • UGC 1 • PGC 177/178 • CGCG 456-018 • MCG + 03-1-15 / 16 • Arp 130 • VV 263 • | |
IC 5378 = Arp 130 is an interacting galaxy pair in the constellation Pegasus north of the ecliptic . It is an estimated 280 million light years from the Milky Way . Halton Arp organized his catalog of unusual galaxies into groups according to purely morphological criteria. This galaxy belongs to the class of elliptical galaxies close to spiral galaxies and disturbing them (Arp catalog) .
The object was discovered by Isaac Roberts on November 17, 1895 .
Web links
literature
- Jeff Kanipe and Dennis Webb: The Arp Atlas of Peculiar Galaxies - A Chronicle and Observer's Guide , Richmond 2006, ISBN 978-0-943396-76-7