IC 821

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Galaxy
IC 821
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SDSS recording
SDSS recording
AladinLite
Constellation Berenike's hair
Position
equinoxJ2000.0 , epoch : J2000.0
Right ascension 12 h 47 m 26.1 s
declination + 29 ° 47 ′ 16 ″
Appearance
Morphological type SAB (s) bc  
Brightness  (visual) 13.8 mag
Brightness  (B-band) 14.6 mag
Angular expansion 1.10 × 1.1
Surface brightness 13.9 mag / arcmin²
Physical data
Redshift 0.022442 ± 0.000017  
Radial velocity 6728 ± 5 km / s  
Stroke distance
v rad  / H 0
(301 ± 21)  x  10 6  ly
(92.4 ± 6.5)  Mpc 
history
discovery Rudolf Spitaler
Discovery date March 18, 1892
Catalog names
IC  821 • UGC  7957 • PGC  43161 • CGCG  159-076 • MCG  + 05-30-083 • IRAS  F12450 + 3003 • KUG  1245 + 300 • 2MASX  J12472618 + 2947154 • ASK 579146.0

IC 821 is a bar-spiral galaxy of the Hubble type SBbc in the constellation Coma Berenices in the northern sky . It is estimated to be 301 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 IC 818 , IC 820 , IC 822 .

The object was discovered by Rudolf Spitaler on March 18, 1892 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. a b c d NASA / IPAC EXTRAGALACTIC DATABASE
  2. a b c d SEDS : IC 821
  3. Seligman

Attention: The sorting key "IC 0821" overwrites the previously used key "IC0821".