NGC 2007
| Galaxy NGC 2007 |
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| AladinLite | |
| Constellation | painter |
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Position equinox : J2000.0 , epoch : J2000.0 |
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| Right ascension | 05 h 34 m 59.2 s |
| declination | -50 ° 55 ′ 18 ″ |
| Appearance | |
| Morphological type | SB (rs) bc / HII |
| Brightness (visual) | 13.4 mag |
| Brightness (B-band) | 14.1 mag |
| Angular expansion | 1.7 ′ × 0.6 ′ |
| Position angle | 83 ° |
| Surface brightness | 13.3 mag / arcmin² |
| Physical data | |
| Redshift | 0.015087 ± 0.000013 |
| Radial velocity | 4523 ± 4 km / s |
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Stroke distance v rad / H 0 |
(193 ± 14) · 10 6 ly (59.3 ± 4.2) Mpc |
| history | |
| discovery | John Herschel |
| Discovery date | December 27, 1834 |
| Catalog names | |
| NGC 2007 • PGC 017478 • ESO 204-G019 • 2MASX J05345917-5055181 • SGC 053347-5057.2 • GC 1210 • h 2892 • HIPASS J0535-50 | |
NGC 2007 is a bar-spiral galaxy with extensive star formation regions of the Hubble type SBc in the constellation Maler in the southern sky . It is estimated to be 193 million light years from the Milky Way and about 100,000 light years in diameter. Together with NGC 2008 , it forms an optical pair of galaxies.
The object was discovered on December 27, 1834 by the British astronomer John Herschel .