IC 575

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Galaxy
IC 575
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Constellation sextant
Position
equinoxJ2000.0 , epoch : J2000.0
Right ascension 09 h 54 m 32.9 s
declination -06 ° 51 ′ 27 ″
Appearance
Morphological type Sa pec sp  
Brightness  (visual) 13.2 mag
Brightness  (B-band) 14.1 mag
Angular expansion 1.2 ′ × 0.8 ′
Position angle 140 °
Surface brightness 13.0 mag / arcmin²
Physical data
Redshift 0.019924 ± 0.000133  
Radial velocity (5973 ± 40) km / s  
Stroke distance
v rad  / H 0
(259 ± 18)  ·  10 6  ly
(79.5 ± 5.6)  Mpc 
history
discovery Stéphane Javelle
Discovery date March 9, 1893
Catalog names
IC  575 • PGC  28575 • MCG  -01-25-058 • 2MASX  J09543292-0651273 • Arp  292 • VV  111 • LDCE 0133 NED002

IC 575 = Arp 292 is a merging spiral galaxy of the Hubble type Sa in the constellation Sextant in the southern sky . It is estimated to be 259 million light years from the Milky Way and about 95,000 ly in diameter.

Halton Arp organized his catalog of unusual galaxies into groups according to purely morphological criteria. This galaxy pair belongs to the class galaxies with wind effects . In the same area of ​​the sky are u. a. the galaxies NGC 3035 , NGC 3064 , IC 574 .

The object was discovered by Stéphane Javelle on March 9, 1893 .

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

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. a b c d NASA / IPAC EXTRAGALACTIC DATABASE
  2. a b c d e SEDS : IC 575
  3. Seligman


Attention: The sorting key “IC 0575” overwrites the previously used key “IC0575”.