IC 803
| Galaxy IC 803 |
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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 39 m 37.0 s |
| declination | + 16 ° 35 ′ 17 ″ |
| Appearance | |
| Morphological type | P |
| Brightness (visual) | 15.1 mag |
| Brightness (B-band) | 15.9 mag |
| Angular expansion | 0.8 ′ × 0.2 ′ |
| Position angle | 84 ° |
| Surface brightness | 13.0 mag / arcmin² |
| Physical data | |
| Redshift | 0.026635 ± 0.000237 |
| Radial velocity | (7985 ± 71) km / s |
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Stroke distance v rad / H 0 |
(355 ± 25) x 10 6 ly (108.9 ± 7.7) Mpc |
| history | |
| discovery | Stéphane Javelle |
| Discovery date | April 25, 1892 |
| Catalog names | |
| IC 803 • PGC 42367 • CGCG 099-105 • MCG + 03-32-080 • IRAS 12371 + 1651 • Arp 149 • VV 564 • | |
IC 803 is an interacting pair of galaxies in the constellation Haar der Berenike. It is estimated to be 355 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 galaxies with jets (Arp catalog) .
The object was discovered by Stéphane Javelle on April 25, 1892 .
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