IC 5152

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.^[4]

IC 5152
IC 5152 by the Hubble Space Telescope
Observation data (J2000 epoch)
Constellation	Indus
Right ascension	22h 02m 41.521s [1]
Declination	−51° 17′ 47.20″[1]
Redshift	0.000407[2]
Heliocentric radial velocity	122 km/s[2]
Distance	5.87 ± 1.22 Mly (1.801 ± 0.374 Mpc)[2]
Apparent magnitude (V)	10.6[3]
Characteristics
Type	IA(s)m[2]
Apparent size (V)	4.9' x 2.8'[2]
Other designations
AM 2159-513, ESO 237-27, IRAS 21594-5132, PGC 67908, 2MASX J22024152-5117471[2]