Galaxy · constellation Vir
IC 3457
IC 3457MCG +02-32-114PGC 41494UGC 7672
Catalogue data
- Right ascension
- 12h 31m 51.3s
- Declination
- +12° 39' 25"
- Size
- 1.0′ × 40.2″
- Position angle
- 143°
- Magnitude
- 14.6 (V)
- Surface brightness
- 23.68 mag/arcsec²
- Hubble type
- E
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Suggested techniques
- LRGB, RGB, OSC
- Data source
- OpenNGC
The 2MASS peak is 5 arcsec southwest of the optical nucleus.
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