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Galaxy in the constellation of Virgo This article is about the barred spiral galaxy, Index Catalogue Dreyer object 1011. Not to be confused with IC 1101.
IC 1011
SDSS image of IC 1011
Observation data (J2000 epoch)
ConstellationVirgo
Right ascension14 28 04.563
Declination01° 00′ 22.87″
Characteristics
TypeSb d
Apparent size (V)0.741′ × 0.427
Other designations
PGC 51662, MCG +00-37-008, 2MASX J14280456+0100228, IRAS 14255+0113

IC 1011 is a barred spiral galaxy with apparent magnitude of 14.7, and with a redshift of z=0.02564 (SIMBAD) or 0.025703 (NASA), yielding a distance of 100 to 120 megaparsecs. Its light has taken 349.5 million years to travel to Earth. IC 1011's calculated age is approximately 12.95 billion years. The IC designation comes from the Index Catalogue.

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Footnotes

  1. ^ SIMBAD, "IC 1011" (accessed 2011-05-09)
  2. ^ WikiSky, "IC 1011" (accessed 2011-05-09)
  3. ^ NED results for object IC 1011, NASA/IPAC Extragalactic Database

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