Cosmic Atlas object record

IC 3502

IC3502, IC 3502

IC 3502
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Object type
galaxy
Constellation
Com
Right ascension
188.426375°
Declination
26.61736111°
Reference frame
J2000 equatorial catalog coordinates
Distance
333008093.78385735 ly
Distance kind
Not supplied by the source catalog
Uncertainty
Not supplied by the source catalog
Apparent magnitude
17.44
Catalog source
openngc_ngc_ic_catalog
Catalog epoch
J2000 catalog coordinates
Position epoch
J2000
Selection caveat
OpenNGC Pax is not treated as parallax for galaxies. Galactic classes never use Hubble-flow redshift or radial-velocity distance, and radial velocity alone is never converted to distance.
Cosmology
Not supplied by the source catalog

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