IC 568
| Galaxy IC 568 |
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| SDSS recording | |
| AladinLite | |
| Constellation | lion |
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Position equinox : J2000.0 , epoch : J2000.0 |
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| Right ascension | 09 h 51 m 08.3 s |
| declination | + 15 ° 43 ′ 50 ″ |
| Appearance | |
| Morphological type | SB (rs) b |
| Brightness (visual) | 13.8 mag |
| Brightness (B-band) | 14.6 mag |
| Angular expansion | 1.70 × 1.1 |
| Position angle | 33 ° |
| Surface brightness | 14.3 mag / arcmin² |
| Physical data | |
| Redshift | 0.029087 ± 0.000030 |
| Radial velocity | 8720 ± 9 km / s |
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Stroke distance v rad / H 0 |
(385 ± 27) x 10 6 ly (118.1 ± 8.3) Mpc |
| history | |
| discovery | Stéphane Javelle |
| Discovery date | January 15, 1894 |
| Catalog names | |
| IC 568 • UGC 5285 • PGC 28368 • CGCG 092-057 • MCG + 03-25-031 • IRAS 9484 + 1557 • 2MASX J09510833 + 1543497 • LDCE 681 NED001 | |
IC 568 is a bar-spiral galaxy of the Hubble type SBb in the constellation Leo at the celestial equator . It is estimated to be 385 million light years away from the Milky Way and has a diameter of about 195,000 ly.
In the same area of the sky are the galaxies IC 565 , IC 570 , IC 571 , IC 572 .
The object was discovered on January 15, 1894 by the astronomer Stéphane Javelle and later listed by Johan Dreyer in his index catalog .