IC2972
R/B-band color composite image from the Second Digitized Sky Survey (DSS2), measuring 10 arcminutes across.
From South El Monte , IC2972 is visible in the dawn sky, rising at 04:12 (PDT) – 2 hours and 56 minutes before the Sun – and reaching an altitude of 22° above the eastern horizon before fading from view as dawn breaks at around 06:08.
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Name
IC2972
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Object type
Duplicate catalogue entry for NGC3952
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Position
| Right ascension: | 11h53m [2] |
| Declination: | −03°59' [2] |
| Constellation: | Virgo |
| Distance: | 27.0 Mpc 88.0 Mlyr [1] |