IC 791
| Galaxy IC 791 |
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| SDSS recording | |
| AladinLite | |
| Constellation | Berenike's hair |
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Position equinox : J2000.0 , epoch : J2000.0 |
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| Right ascension | 12 h 26 m 59.5 s |
| declination | + 22 ° 38 ′ 23 ″ |
| Appearance | |
| Morphological type | (R) SB (r) a / LINER |
| Brightness (visual) | 13.2 mag |
| Brightness (B-band) | 14.1 mag |
| Angular expansion | 1.1 ′ × 1.1 ′ |
| Surface brightness | 13.3 mag / arcmin² |
| Physical data | |
| Redshift | 0.022816 +/- 0.000017 |
| Radial velocity | 6840 +/- 5 km / s |
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Stroke distance v rad / H 0 |
(305 ± 21) · 10 6 ly (93.4 ± 6.5) Mpc |
| history | |
| discovery | Truman Henry Safford |
| Discovery date | June 6, 1866 |
| Catalog names | |
| IC 791 • UGC 7555 • PGC 40783 • CGCG 128-089 • MCG + 04-29-071 • 2MASX J12265947 + 2238224 • | |
IC 791 is a bar-spiral galaxy with an active galaxy core of the Hubble type SBa in the constellation Coma Berenices in the northern sky . It is estimated to be 305 million light years away from the Milky Way and has a diameter of around 100,000 ly.
In the same area of the sky are the galaxies NGC 4455 , IC 795 , IC 3359 , IC 3272 .
The object was discovered on June 6, 1866 by Truman Henry Safford .