IC 995

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Galaxy
IC 995
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SDSS recording
SDSS recording
AladinLite
Constellation Big Bear
Position
equinoxJ2000.0 , epoch : J2000.0
Right ascension 14 h 16 m 31.1 s
declination + 57 ° 48 ′ 36 ″
Appearance
Morphological type Sdm:  
Brightness  (visual) 14.0 mag
Brightness  (B-band) 14.6 mag
Angular expansion 1.6 ′ × 0.4 ′
Position angle 147 °
Surface brightness 13.4 mag / arcmin²
Physical data
Redshift 0.010417 +/- 0.000023  
Radial velocity 3123 +/- 7 km / s  
Stroke distance
v rad  / H 0
(145 ± 10)  ·  10 6  ly
(44.6 ± 3.1)  Mpc 
history
discovery Lewis Swift
Discovery date July 2, 1888
Catalog names
IC  995 • UGC  9145 • PGC  50990 • CGCG  295-042 • MCG  + 10-20-091 • IRAS  F14149 + 5802 • 2MASX  J14163108 + 5748373 •

IC 995 is a bar-spiral galaxy of the Hubble type SBd in the constellation Great Bear in the northern sky . It is estimated to be 145 million light years away from the Milky Way and has a diameter of about 65,000 ly.
In the same area of ​​the sky are the galaxies NGC 5526 , NGC 5561 , IC 996 , among others .

The object was discovered by Lewis Swift on July 2, 1888 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. a b c d NASA / IPAC EXTRAGALACTIC DATABASE
  2. a b c d e f SEDS : IC 995
  3. Seligman

Attention: The sorting key “IC 0995” overwrites the previously used key “IC0995”.