IC 10

Right Ascension	00 : 20.4 (h:m)
Declination	+59 : 18 (deg:m)
Distance	4200.0 (kly)
Visual Brightness	10.3 (mag)
Apparent Dimension	5x4 (arc min)

Discovered by Lewis Swift in the 1890s.

An outlying member of the Local Group of galaxies.

IC 10 was discovered by Lewis Swift in the 1890s and included in his first list of nebulae found at the Warner Observatory, Rochester, NY (Astr. Nachr. 2859 - referred to as "Swift VII" e.g. by Dreyer). J.L.E. Dreyer, in the IC catalog of 1895, describes it as "faint star involved in extremely faint and very large nebula." It was photographed by H.D. Curtis of Lick Observatory on October 8, 1915, but it remained to N.U. Mayall to reveal this object's extragalactic nature in 1935. Edwin Hubble was the first to consider it as a Local Group member in 1936. Nevertheless, this assumption could not be confirmed until the 1960s, when Morton S. Roberts (1962) and Gerard de Vaucouleurs and H. Ables (1965) determined its radial velocity and distance estimates.

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 2048x2048 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.

Observing Reports for IC 10 (IAAC Netastrocatalog)

References:

• de Vaucouleurs, G. and Ables, H., 1965. Integrated Magnitudes and Color Indices of IC 10. PASP Vol. 77, No. 457, 272-282
• Hubble, E.P., 1936. The realm of the Nebulae. Yale University Press, New Haven. Pages 124, 145.
• Mayall, N.U., 1935. An Extra-Galactic Object 3 deg from the Plane of the Galaxy. PASP Vol. 47, No . 280, 317-318
• Roberts, M.S., 1962. A study of neutral hydrogen in IC 10. Astron. J., 67, 431-436

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Hartmut Frommert (spider@seds.org)
Christine Kronberg (smil@lrz.uni-muenchen.de)

Last Modification: 6 Sep 2000, 11:30 MET