IC 860

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Galaxy
IC 860
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SDSS recording
SDSS recording
AladinLite
Constellation Berenike's hair
Position
equinoxJ2000.0 , epoch : J2000.0
Right ascension 13 h 15 m 03.5 s
declination + 24 ° 37 ′ 08 ″
Appearance
Morphological type Sa / LINER  
Brightness  (visual) 14.5 mag
Brightness  (B-band) 15.4 mag
Angular expansion 0.80 ′ × 0.5 ′
Position angle 12 °
Surface brightness 13.4 mag / arcmin²
Physical data
Redshift 0.011164 +/- 0.000064  
Radial velocity 3347 +/- 19 km / s  
Stroke distance
v rad  / H 0
(150 ± 10)  x  10 6  ly
(46.0 ± 3.2)  Mpc 
history
discovery Stéphane Javelle
Discovery date June 16, 1892
Catalog names
IC  860 • PGC  46086 • CGCG  130-023 • MCG  + 04-31-015 • IRAS  13126 + 2452 • 2MASX  J13150351 + 2437074 • FBQS J131503.5 + 243707

IC 860 is a spiral galaxy with an active nucleus of the Hubble type Sa in the constellation Coma Berenices in the northern sky . It is estimated to be 150 million light years away from the Milky Way and has a diameter of about 35,000 ly.
In the same area of ​​the sky are the galaxies NGC 5016 and IC 4215 .

The object was discovered by Stéphane Javelle on June 16, 1892 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. a b c d NASA / IPAC EXTRAGALACTIC DATABASE
  2. a b c d e f SEDS : IC 862
  3. Seligman