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IC 883

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Right ascension
  
13 20 35,5

Redshift
  
6954 ± 16 km/s

Apparent magnitude (V)
  
13,8

Constellation
  
Coma Berenices

Declination
  
+34° 8′ 19″

Distance
  
320.9 Mly (98.4 Mpc)

Type
  
Irr (Im/P)

IC 883 httpsuploadwikimediaorgwikipediacommonsthu

Similar
  
NGC 1614, Arp 299, NGC 6621, NGC 520, UGC 6945

IC 883 (also known as Arp 193, IRAS 13183+3423, PGC 46560 and UGC 8387) is an irregular galaxy that is about 321 million light years away from Earth. It is located in the constellation Coma Berenices. Its largest radius is 1.4 (131 thousand light years), and smallest 0.7 angular minutes (65 thousand light years). It was discovered by Rudolf Ferdinand Spitaler on May 1 1891.

References

IC 883 Wikipedia