IC 907
| Galaxy IC 907 |
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| SDSS recording | |
| AladinLite | |
| Constellation | Big Bear |
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Position equinox : J2000.0 , epoch : J2000.0 |
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| Right ascension | 13 h 39 m 23.0 s |
| declination | + 51 ° 03 ′ 04 ″ |
| Appearance | |
| Morphological type | SBb? / Seyfert 2 |
| Brightness (visual) | 14.5 mag |
| Brightness (B-band) | 15.3 mag |
| Angular expansion | 1.3 ′ × 0.2 ′ |
| Position angle | 20 ° |
| Surface brightness | 12.9 mag / arcmin² |
| Physical data | |
| Redshift | 0.015386 ± 0.000201 |
| Radial velocity | 4613 ± 60 km / s |
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Stroke distance v rad / H 0 |
(211 ± 15) · 10 6 ly (64.6 ± 4.6) Mpc |
| history | |
| discovery | Lewis Swift |
| Discovery date | April 8, 1888 |
| Catalog names | |
| IC 907 • UGC 8643 • PGC 48286 • CGCG 271-055 • MCG + 09-22-090 • IRAS F13373 + 5118 • 2MASX J13392302 + 5103036 • GALEX ASC J133923.16 + 510306.8 • LDCE 990 NED003 | |
IC 907 is a bar-spiral galaxy with an active galaxy core of the Hubble type SBb in the constellation Great Bear in the northern sky . It is estimated to be 211 million light years away from the Milky Way and has a diameter of around 80,000 ly.
In the same area of the sky is the galaxy NGC 5250 .
The object was discovered by Lewis Swift on April 8, 1888 .