IC 4263

IC 4263 an edge-on barred spiral galaxy in the constellation Canes Venatici.

Its velocity relative to the cosmic microwave background is 2,887 ± 13 km/s , which corresponds to a Hubble distance of 42.6 ± 3.0 Mpc (~139 million light years ).

It was discovered by American astronomer James Edward Keeler in 1899.

[1] IC 4263 is class IV in luminosity and has a broad HI 1 line.

LSB galaxies are diffuse (D) galaxies with a surface brightness less than one magnitude lower than that of the ambient night sky.

The galaxy IC 4263