IC 3831 - Lenticular Galaxy in Corvus

IC 3831 is a Lenticular Galaxy in the Corvus constellation. IC 3831 is situated close to the celestial equator and, as such, it is at least partly visible from both hemispheres in certain times of the year.

Available Resources for IC 3831 - Lenticular Galaxy in Corvus

• Photometric information of IC 3831
• Apparent size of IC 3831
• Digitized Sky Survey image of IC 3831
• IC 3831 morphological classification.
• Celestial coordinates and finder charts of IC 3831.
• Rise ans set times of IC 3831 from your location.

Photometric information of IC 3831

The following table lists the magnitude of IC 3831 in different bands of the electomagnetic spectrum (when available), from the B band (445nm wavelength, corresponding to the Blue color), to the V band ( 551nm wavelength, corresponding to Green/Yellow color), to the J, H, K bands (corresponding to 1220nm, 1630nm, 2190nm wavelengths respectively, which are colors not visible to the human eye).

For more information about photometry in astronomy, check the photometric system article on Wikipedia.

The surface brightess reported below is an indication of the brightness per unit of angular area of IC 3831.

Apparent size of IC 3831

The following table reports IC 3831 apparent angular size. The green area displayed on top of the DSS2 image of IC 3831 is a visual representation of it.

Digitized Sky Survey image of IC 3831

The image below is a photograph of IC 3831 from the Digitized Sky Survey 2 (DSS2 - see the credits section) taken in the red channel. The area of sky represented in the image is 0.5x0.5 degrees (30x30 arcmins).

IC 3831 - Lenticular Galaxy in Corvus morphological classification

IC 3831 - Lenticular Galaxy in Corvus is classified as Lenticular (S0) according to the Hubble and de Vaucouleurs galaxy morphological classification. The diagram below shows a visual representation of the position of IC 3831 - Lenticular Galaxy in Corvus in the Hubble de Vaucouleurs sequence.

Celestial coordinates and finder chart of IC 3831

Celestial coordinates for the J2000 equinox of IC 3831 are provided in the following table:

The simplified sky charts below show the position of IC 3831 in the sky. The first chart has a field of view of 60° while the second one has a field of view of 10°.

Rise ans set times of IC 3831 from your location

Today's IC 3831 - Lenticular Galaxy in Corvus rise, transit and set times from Greenwich, United Kingdom edit_location_alt are the following (all times relative to the local timezone Europe/London):