IC 858
| Galaxy IC 858 |
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| IC 859 & IC 858 | |
| AladinLite | |
| Constellation | Berenike's hair |
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Position equinox : J2000.0 , epoch : J2000.0 |
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| Right ascension | 13 h 14 m 51.9 s |
| declination | + 17 ° 13 ′ 36 ″ |
| Appearance | |
| Morphological type | S0: |
| Brightness (visual) | 13.5 likes |
| Brightness (B-band) | 14.5 mag |
| Angular expansion | 1.40 × 1.1 |
| Position angle | 100 ° |
| Surface brightness | 13.9 mag / arcmin² |
| Physical data | |
| Redshift | 0.022906 ± 0.000017 |
| Radial velocity | 6867 ± 5 km / s |
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Stroke distance v rad / H 0 |
(306 ± 22) x 10 6 ly (93.9 ± 6.6) Mpc |
| history | |
| discovery | Stephane Javelle |
| Discovery date | May 19, 1892 |
| Catalog names | |
| IC 858 • UGC 8321 • PGC 46069 • CGCG 101-011 • MCG + 03-34-007 • 2MASX J13145194 + 1713364 • VV 47 • LDCE 950 NED003 | |
IC 858 is a lenticular galaxy of the Hubble type S0 in the constellation Coma Berenices in the northern sky . It is estimated to be 306 million light years away from the Milky Way and has a diameter of around 100,000 ly. It is likely to form a gravitationally bound galaxy pair with IC 859 .
The galaxies NGC 5053 and IC 857 are located in the same area of the sky .
The object was discovered by Stéphane Javelle on May 19, 1892 .
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Attention: The sorting key “IC 0858” overwrites the previously used key “IC0858”.