PGC 16787
| Galaxy LEDA / PGC 16787 |
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| AladinLite | |
| Constellation | Swordfish |
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Position equinox : J2000.0 , epoch : J2000.0 |
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| Right ascension | 05 h 07 m 54.90 s |
| declination | -61 ° 11 ′ 28.0 ″ |
| Appearance | |
| Morphological type | Sbc |
| Brightness (visual) | 15.0 mag |
| Brightness (B-band) | 15.8 mag |
| Angular expansion | 1.1 '× 0.3' |
| Position angle | 21 ° |
| Surface brightness | 13.6 mag / arcmin² |
| Physical data | |
| Redshift | 0.019207 |
| Radial velocity | 5758 km / s |
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Stroke distance v rad / H 0 |
(249 ± 17) · 10 6 ly (76.3 ± 5.3) Mpc |
| history | |
| Catalog names | |
| NGC 1796B • ESO 119-037 • IRAS 05073-6115 • 2MASX J05075359-6111253 • SGC 050719-6115.2 • | |
LEDA / PGC 16787 ( NGC 1796B-1 ) is a spiral galaxy of the Hubble type Sbc in the constellation Dorado in the southern sky . It is an estimated 249 million light years away from the Milky Way and about 85,000 light years in diameter . Together with PGC 16789 ( NGC 1796B-2 ) it forms an interacting pair of galaxies.