IC 529 — Sc in Camelopardalis
Sc in Camelopardalis, 3.2 arcminutes across, its light 108 million years old. Measured by HyperLEDA, photographed by Pan-STARRS1. Recorded once.
About IC 529
What you are looking at
IC 529 is a late-type spiral: a small central bulge and open, loosely wound arms full of young stars and star-forming gas. Its disc is steeply tilted, about 64° from face-on, so it appears as a long oval. From edge to edge its visible disc spans about 101,000 light-years, close to the width of the Milky Way.
What astronomers have recorded
SIMBAD, the reference database astronomers use, classes it as a member of a group of galaxies. One supernova has been recorded in it: SN 2025qe. It is cited in 80 scientific papers indexed by SIMBAD, and recorded there under 13 different catalogue designations.
When this light set out
The light that reaches us from IC 529 today set out about 108 million years ago, when the first flowering plants had appeared. The galaxy is moving away from us at about 2,258 km/s (5.1 million mph), carried by the expansion of the universe.
Finding it in the sky
In the sky, IC 529 sits within the constellation Camelopardalis. From most of the United States it never sets: it circles the north celestial pole all year, and stands highest on spring evenings, around March.
Its neighbours
At almost the same distance from us, and so its neighbours in space as well as on the sky: NGC 2634A (2.1° away on the sky, at least 3,930,000 light-years from it); NGC 2633 (2.1° away on the sky, at least 4,020,000 light-years from it); IC 2389 (2.2° away on the sky, at least 4,070,000 light-years from it); UGC 5050 (2.8° away on the sky, at least 5,320,000 light-years from it), and 1 more.
By apparent size it is number 446 of the 12,657 galaxies on the Galaxy Origins register.
Measurements
| Catalogue | PGC 26295 |
|---|---|
| Morphological type | Sc |
| Angular diameter | 3.21′ |
| Right ascension | 09h18m32.8s |
| Declination | +73°45′34.9″ |
| Constellation | Camelopardalis |
| Inclination | 63.8° |
| Light travel time | 108 million years |
| Bar | not recorded |
Check every figure above in the NASA/IPAC Extragalactic Database
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