IC 4608 - Barred Spiral Galaxy in Apus

IC 4608 is a Barred Spiral Galaxy in the Apus constellation. IC 4608 is situated close to the southern celestial pole and, as such, it is easilty visible for most part of the year from the southern hemisphere.

Available Resources for IC 4608 - Barred Spiral Galaxy in Apus

• Photometric information of IC 4608
• Apparent size of IC 4608
• Digitized Sky Survey image of IC 4608
• IC 4608 morphological classification.
• Celestial coordinates and finder charts of IC 4608.
• Rise ans set times of IC 4608 from your location.

Photometric information of IC 4608

The following table lists the magnitude of IC 4608 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 4608.

Apparent size of IC 4608

The following table reports IC 4608 apparent angular size. The green area displayed on top of the DSS2 image of IC 4608 is a visual representation of it.

Digitized Sky Survey image of IC 4608

The image below is a photograph of IC 4608 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 4608 - Barred Spiral Galaxy in Apus morphological classification

IC 4608 - Barred Spiral Galaxy in Apus is classified as Barred Spiral (Bm) according to the Hubble and de Vaucouleurs galaxy morphological classification. The diagram below shows a visual representation of the position of IC 4608 - Barred Spiral Galaxy in Apus in the Hubble de Vaucouleurs sequence.

Celestial coordinates and finder chart of IC 4608

Celestial coordinates for the J2000 equinox of IC 4608 are provided in the following table:

The simplified sky charts below show the position of IC 4608 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 4608 from your location

IC 4608 - Barred Spiral Galaxy in Apus is currently not visible from Greenwich, United Kingdom edit_location_alt