NGC 2200
Galaxy NGC 2200 |
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AladinLite | |
Constellation | Aft deck of the ship |
Position equinox : J2000.0 , epoch : J2000.0 |
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Right ascension | 06 h 13 m 17.6 s |
declination | -43 ° 39 ′ 47 ″ |
Appearance | |
Morphological type | SB (rs) c |
Brightness (visual) | 14.2 mag |
Brightness (B-band) | 14.9 mag |
Angular expansion | 0.9 ′ × 0.6 ′ |
Position angle | 161 ° |
Surface brightness | 13.4 mag / arcmin² |
Physical data | |
Redshift | 0.016305 ± 0.000150 |
Radial velocity | 4888 ± 45 km / s |
Stroke distance v rad / H 0 |
(209 ± 15) x 10 6 ly (64.2 ± 4.5) Mpc |
history | |
discovery | John Herschel |
Discovery date | January 23, 1835 |
Catalog names | |
NGC 2200 • PGC 18652 • ESO 254-039 • MCG -07-13-006 • 2MASX J06131758-4339475 • GALEX ASC J061317.54-433948.5 |
NGC 2200 is a bar-spiral galaxy of the Hubble type SBc in the constellation Puppis in the southern sky . It is estimated to be 209 million light years away from the Milky Way and has a diameter of about 55,000 ly.
It is likely to form gravitationally bound galaxies with NGC 2201 .
The object was discovered by John Herschel on January 23, 1835 .