NGC 2830

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Galaxy
NGC 2830
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Arp 315, from left to right: NGC 2832, NGC2831 and NGC 2830, SDSS
Arp 315, from left to right: NGC 2832, NGC2831 and NGC 2830, SDSS
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Constellation lynx
Position
equinoxJ2000.0 , epoch : J2000.0
Right ascension 09 h 19 m 41.4 s
declination + 33 ° 44 ′ 17 ″
Appearance
Morphological type SB0 / a: / sp / Sy2  
Brightness  (visual) 13.9 likes
Brightness  (B-band) 14.8 mag
Angular expansion 1.2 ′ × 0.3 ′
Position angle 112 °
Surface brightness 12.6 mag / arcmin²
Physical data
Affiliation Abell 779  
Redshift 0.020367 ± 0.000008  
Radial velocity (6106 ± 2) km / s  
Stroke distance
v rad  / H 0
(271 ± 19)  x  10 6  ly
(83.2 ± 5.8)  Mpc 
history
discovery George Stoney
Discovery date March 13, 1850
Catalog names
NGC  2830 • UGC  4941 • PGC  26371 • CGCG  181-023 • MCG  + 06-21-014 • 2MASX  J09194142 + 3344170 • HOLM 123B • LDCE 627 NED003

NGC 2830 is a lenticular galaxy with an active nucleus of the Hubble type SB0 / a in the constellation of the lynx in the northern sky . It is estimated to be 271 million light years away from the Milky Way and has a diameter of around 95,000 ly. Together with NGC 2831 and NGC 2832 , it forms the optical galaxy trio Arp 315 . Halton Arp organized his catalog of unusual galaxies into groups according to purely morphological criteria. This galaxy triplet belongs to the class of galaxy groups .

The object was discovered on March 13, 1850 by George Johnstone Stoney .

Web links

Commons : NGC 2830  - collection of images, videos, and audio files

literature

  • Jeff Kanipe and Dennis Webb: The Arp Atlas of Peculiar Galaxies - A Chronicle and Observer's Guide , Richmond 2006, ISBN 978-0-943396-76-7

Individual evidence

  1. a b c d e NASA / IPAC EXTRAGALACTIC DATABASE
  2. a b c d e f SEDS : NGC 2830
  3. Seligman