IC 3453
IC 3453
IC 3453 is an irregular galaxy in the constellation Coma Berenices. It is receding from us at about 2,546 km/s.
Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph
Irregular
type · IB
14.8
apparent magnitude
2,546 km/s
receding (RC3)
Source: structural data (position, morphology, brightness, redshift) from OpenNGC (CC BY-SA). Recession velocity from RC3 (de Vaucouleurs et al. 1991, via NASA/HEASARC, public domain). No reliable distance is available, so none is shown.