IC 5152

{{Short description|Irregular galaxy in the constellation Indus}}

{{Infobox galaxy

| name = IC 5152

| image = IC 5152 HST.png

| image_size = 250px

| caption = IC 5152 by the Hubble Space Telescope

| credit =

| epoch = J2000

| constellation name = Indus

| ra = {{RA|22|02|41.521}} {{cite journal |doi=10.1086/498708 |last1=Skrutskie |first1=Michael F. |last2=Cutri |first2=Roc M. |last3=Stiening |first3=Rae |last4=Weinberg |first4=Martin D. |last5=Schneider |first5=Stephen E. |last6=Carpenter |first6=John M. |last7=Beichman |first7=Charles A. |last8=Capps |first8=Richard W. |last9=Chester |first9=Thomas |last10=Elias |first10=Jonathan H. |last11=Huchra |first11=John P. |last12=Liebert |first12=James W. |last13=Lonsdale |first13=Carol J. |last14=Monet |first14=David G. |last15=Price |first15=Stephan |last16=Seitzer |first16=Patrick |last17=Jarrett |first17=Thomas H. |last18=Kirkpatrick |first18=J. Davy |last19=Gizis |first19=John E. |last20=Howard |first20=Elizabeth V. |last21=Evans |first21=Tracey E. |last22=Fowler |first22=John W. |last23=Fullmer |first23=Linda |last24=Hurt |first24=Robert L. |last25=Light |first25=Robert M. |last26=Kopan |first26=Eugene L. |last27=Marsh |first27=Kenneth A. |last28=McCallon |first28=Howard L. |last29=Tam |first29=Robert |last30=Van Dyk |first30=Schuyler D. |last31=Wheelock |first31=Sherry L. |title=The Two Micron All Sky Survey (2MASS) |journal=The Astronomical Journal |date=1 February 2006 |volume=131 |issue=2 |pages=1163–1183 |bibcode=2006AJ....131.1163S |s2cid=18913331 |issn=0004-6256 |doi-access=free }}

| dec = {{DEC|-51|17|47.20}}

| z = 0.000407{{cite web

|url=http://nedwww.ipac.caltech.edu/cgi-bin/nph-objsearch?objname=IC+5152&extend=no&out_csys=Equatorial&out_equinox=J2000.0&obj_sort=RA+or+Longitude&of=pre_text&zv_breaker=30000.0&list_limit=5&img_stamp=YES

|title=NED results for object IC 5152

|accessdate=30 November 2016

|publisher=National Aeronautics and Space Administration / Infrared Processing and Analysis Center }}

| h_radial_v = {{nowrap|122 km/s}}

| dist_ly = 5.87 ± 1.22 Mly
{{nowrap|(1.801 ± 0.374 Mpc)}}

| type = IA(s)m

| appmag_v = 10.6{{cite web

| url = http://messier.seds.org/xtra/ngc/i5152.html

| title = IC 5152

| accessdate = 30 November 2016 }}

| size_v = 4.9' x 2.8'

| names = AM 2159-513, ESO 237-27, IRAS 21594-5132, PGC 67908, 2MASX J22024152-5117471

}}

IC 5152 is an irregular galaxy 5.8 million light-years from Earth in the constellation Indus. It was discovered by DeLisle Stewart in 1908. It is an open question as to whether it is an outlying member of the Local Group. It is one of the easiest galaxies to resolve into stars, but there is a bright (magnitude 7.7) foreground star (HD 209142) right in front of it that makes deep observations difficult.{{Cite journal

| author1 = Ziljstra, A. A. | author2=Minniti, Dante

| title = A Dwarf Irregular Galaxy at the Edge of the Local Group: Stellar Populations and Distance of IC 5152

| journal = Astronomical Journal

| volume = 117| issue =4| pages = 1743–1757| date = April 1999

| doi =10.1086/300802

| bibcode=1999AJ....117.1743Z|arxiv = astro-ph/9812330 | s2cid=14737502

}}