IC 866
| Galaxy IC 866 |
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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 | 13 h 17 m 16.7 s |
| declination | + 20 ° 41 ′ 28 ″ |
| Appearance | |
| Morphological type | SB |
| Brightness (visual) | 15.2 mag |
| Brightness (B-band) | 16 likes |
| Angular expansion | 1.10 ′ × 0.3 ′ |
| Position angle | 32 ° |
| Surface brightness | 12.6 mag / arcmin² |
| Physical data | |
| Redshift | 0.022526 |
| Radial velocity | 6753 km / s |
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Stroke distance v rad / H 0 |
(302 ± 21) · 10 6 ly (92.5 ± 6.5) Mpc |
| history | |
| discovery | Lewis Swift |
| Discovery date | April 22, 1889 |
| Catalog names | |
| IC 866 • UGC 8354 • PGC 46279 • CGCG 130-027 • MCG + 04-31-019 • IRAS 13148 + 2057 • 2MASX J13171672 + 2041273 • SDSS J131716.74 + 204127.5 | |
IC 866 is a bar-spiral galaxy of the Hubble type SB in the constellation Coma Berenices in the northern sky . It is estimated to be 302 million light years away from the Milky Way and has a diameter of about 100,000 ly.
In the same area of the sky are the galaxies IC 862 , IC 864 , IC 867 , IC 870 .
The object was discovered by Lewis Swift on April 22, 1889 .