IC 648
| Galaxy  IC 648  | 
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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 | 10 h 51 m 00.3 s | 
| declination | + 12 ° 17 ′ 15 ″ | 
| Appearance | |
| Morphological type | SBc (r) | 
| Brightness (visual) | 14.0 mag | 
| Brightness (B-band) | 14.8 mag | 
| Angular expansion | 0.8 ′ × 0.5 ′ | 
| Position angle | 120 ° | 
| Surface brightness | 12.9 mag / arcmin² | 
| Physical data | |
| Redshift | 0.035685 ± 0.000009 | 
| Radial velocity | (10698 ± 3) km / s | 
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Stroke distance  v rad / H 0  | 
(474 ± 33)  ·  10 6  ly (145.2 ± 10.2) Mpc  | 
| history | |
| discovery | Stéphane Javelle | 
| Discovery date | March 31, 1892 | 
| Catalog names | |
| IC 648 • PGC 32522 • CGCG 066-040 • MCG + 02-28-017 • 2MASX J10510033 + 1217147 • | |
IC 648 is a bar-spiral galaxy of the Hubble type SBc in the constellation Leo. It is estimated to be 474 million light years from the Milky Way .
The object was discovered by Stéphane Javelle on March 31, 1892 .