NGC 2008
| Galaxy NGC 2008 |
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| The galaxy NGC 2008 imaged by the Hubble Space Telescope | |
| AladinLite | |
| Constellation | painter |
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Position equinox : J2000.0 , epoch : J2000.0 |
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| Right ascension | 05 h 35 m 03.8 s |
| declination | -50 ° 58 ′ 00 ″ |
| Appearance | |
| Morphological type | SA (s) c |
| Brightness (visual) | 13.2 mag |
| Brightness (B-band) | 13.9 likes |
| Angular expansion | 1.4 ′ × 0.7 ′ |
| Position angle | 105 ° |
| Surface brightness | 13.0 mag / arcmin² |
| Physical data | |
| Redshift | 0.034387 ± 0.000033 |
| Radial velocity | 10.309 +/- 10 km / s |
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Stroke distance v rad / H 0 |
(452 ± 32) · 10 6 ly (138.5 ± 9.7) Mpc |
| history | |
| discovery | John Herschel |
| Discovery date | December 27, 1834 |
| Catalog names | |
| NGC 2008 • PGC 17480 • ESO 204-020 • IRAS 05338-5059 • 2MASX J05350381-5058002 • SGC 053352-5059.9 • GC 1211 • h 2894 • AGC 24399 | |
NGC 2008 is a spiral galaxy of Hubble type Sc in the constellation Painter at the southern sky . It is an estimated 452 million light years from the Milky Way and about 190,000 light years in diameter. Together with NGC 2007 , it forms an optical pair of galaxies.
The object was discovered on December 27, 1834 by the British astronomer John Herschel .