IC 10

Irregular Galaxy IC 10,

type Ir+ or KBm (?),

in Cassiopeia

Right Ascension	00 : 20.4 (h:m)
Declination	+59 : 18 (deg:m)
Distance	4200.0 (kly)
Visual Brightness	10.3 (mag)
Apparent Dimension	5×4 (arc min)

An outlying member of the

Local Group of galaxies.

Our image was obtained by Sven Kohle and Till Credner of

Bonn, Germany,

with the 1-meter telescope of the Hoher List observatory. It was created from

3 exposures with a 2048×2048 CCD camera, with B, V, and H-alpha filter.

The B and V images were exposed for 30 minutes each, the H-alpha image for

245 minutes. The image is copyrighted

by the observers.

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Hartmut Frommert

([email protected])

Christine Kronberg

([email protected])

Last Modification: 21 Mar 1998, 12:30 MET