{{Short description|Spiral galaxy in the constellation Centaurus}}

{{Infobox galaxy | name = IC 4214 | image = File:IC 4214 legacy dr10.jpg | caption = IC 4214 imaged by [[Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument|Legacy Surveys]] | credit = | epoch = J2000.0 | constellation name = [[Centaurus]]<ref name="sky">{{Cite web|url=https://theskylive.com/sky/deepsky/ic4214-object|title=IC 4214 - Barred Spiral Galaxy in Centaurus &#124; TheSkyLive|website=theskylive.com}}</ref><ref name="sed">{{Cite web|url=https://spider.seds.org/ngc/revngcic.cgi?IC4214|title=Revised IC Data for IC 4214|website=spider.seds.org}}</ref> | ra = {{RA|13|17|43}}<ref name="cseligman">{{Cite web|url=https://cseligman.com/text/atlas/ic42.htm#ic4214|title=Index Catalog Objects: IC 4200 - 4249|website=cseligman.com}}</ref><ref name="sky" /> | dec = {{DEC|−32|06|05}}<ref name="cseligman" /><ref name="sed" /> | z = 0.007705<ref name="kos">{{Cite web|url=https://kosmoved.ru/get_ngcic.php?ID=IC_4214&lang=eng|title=IC 4214 - spiral galaxy with bar. Description IC 4214|website=kosmoved.ru}}</ref> | h_radial_v = 2310 ± 2<ref name="ned">{{Cite web|url=https://ned.ipac.caltech.edu/byname?objname=IC+4214&hconst=67.8&omegam=0.308&omegav=0.692&wmap=4&corr_z=1|title=By Name &#124; NASA/IPAC Extragalactic Database|website=ned.ipac.caltech.edu}}</ref> | dist_ly = 106 million LY<ref name="kos" /> | appmag_v = 11.65<ref name="sky" /> | size_v = 2.80 x 1.8<ref name="kos" /><ref name="sed" /> | type = SBab<ref name="kos" /><ref name="sed" /><ref name="ned" /><ref name="cseligman" /> | names = {{odlist |PGC= 46304}}<ref name="cseligman" /><ref name="wikisky">{{Cite web|url=https://server3.wikisky.org/starview?object_type=2&object_id=1267&object_name=IC+4214&locale=IT|title=IC 4214 - Galassia - WIKISKY|website=server3.wikisky.org}}</ref> }} '''IC 4214''' is a [[barred spiral galaxy]]<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Moss |first1=D. |last2=Rautiainen |first2=P. |last3=Salo |first3=H. |date=1999-02-11 |title=A dynamo model for the magnetic field of the weakly barred galaxy IC 4214 |journal=Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society |language=en |volume=303 |issue=1 |pages=125–132 |doi=10.1046/j.1365-8711.1999.02191.x |doi-access=free |issn=0035-8711 }}</ref> in the constellation [[Centaurus]].<ref name="sky" /> It's classified as a type SBaB galaxy.<ref name="sed" /> It was first discovered in 1897 by astronomer [[Lewis Swift]].<ref name="cseligman" /> The galaxy is approximately 100 thousand light-years across.<ref name="cseligman" />

IC 4214 is a three-ringed structure, with its nuclear, inner, and outer rings.<ref name="cambridge">{{cite journal |last1=Saraiva |first1=M. F. |title=CCD Photometry of the Weakly Barred Triple-Ringed Galaxy IC 4214 |journal=IAU Colloquium 157: Barred Galaxies |date=1996 |volume=91 |page=120 |bibcode=1996ASPC...91..120S | url = https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/EC28D26A77AE5CC4E047F65E6C988019/S0252921100049599a.pdf/ccd-photometry-of-the-weakly-barred-triple-ringed-galaxy-ic-4214.pdf}}</ref> A weak bar feature is present.<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Buta |first1=R. |last2=Purcell |first2=Guy B. |last3=Cobb |first3=Melinda Lewis |last4=Crocker |first4=D. A. |last5=Rautiainen |first5=P. |last6=Salo |first6=H. |date=February 1999 |title=The Structure and Dynamics of the Early-Type Resonance Ring Galaxy IC 4214. I. Observations |url=https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1086/300725 |journal=The Astronomical Journal |volume=117 |issue=2 |pages=778–791 |doi=10.1086/300725 |issn=0004-6256|url-access=subscription }}</ref>

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[[Category:Discoveries by Lewis Swift]] [[Category:Centaurus]]