NGC 2090
| Galaxy NGC 2090 |
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| UV absorption by GALEX | |
| AladinLite | |
| Constellation | Dove |
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Position equinox : J2000.0 , epoch : J2000.0 |
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| Right ascension | 05 h 47 m 01.9 s |
| declination | -34 ° 15 ′ 02 ″ |
| Appearance | |
| Morphological type | SA: (rs) b |
| Brightness (visual) | 11.3 mag |
| Brightness (B-band) | 12.0 mag |
| Angular expansion | 4.9 ′ × 2.4 ′ |
| Position angle | 13 ° |
| Surface brightness | 13.8 mag / arcmin² |
| Physical data | |
| Redshift | 0.003072 ± 0.000007 |
| Radial velocity | 921 ± 2 km / s |
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Stroke distance v rad / H 0 |
(33 ± 2) x 10 6 ly (10.1 ± 0.7) Mpc |
| history | |
| discovery | James Dunlop |
| Discovery date | October 29, 1826 |
| Catalog names | |
| NGC 2090 • PGC 17819 • ESO 363-23 • MCG -06-13-09 • IRAS 05452-3416 • 2MASX J05470188-3415021 • SGC 054514-3416.1 • GC 1288 • h 2944 • AM 0545-341 • HIPASS J0547-34 • LDCE 0384 NED006 | |
NGC 2090 is a spiral galaxy in the constellation Dove . The galaxy was discovered on October 29, 1826 by the astronomer James Dunlop with a 9 "telescope; the discovery was later recorded in the New General Catalog .
Photo from the Hubble Space Telescope
Various observations were made at NGC 2090 with the Hubble Space Telescope. A series of 13 observations of the peripheral area led to a distance determination based on Cepheids at 12.3 Mpc , which corresponds to a distance of 40 million light years .