NGC 2201
| Galaxy NGC 2201 |
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| AladinLite | |
| Constellation | Aft deck of the ship |
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Position equinox : J2000.0 , epoch : J2000.0 |
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| Right ascension | 06 h 13 m 31.6 s |
| declination | -43 ° 42 ′ 17 ″ |
| Appearance | |
| Morphological type | SB (r) bc |
| Brightness (visual) | 13.3 mag |
| Brightness (B-band) | 14.1 mag |
| Angular expansion | 1.1 ′ × 0.5 ′ |
| Position angle | 113 ° |
| Surface brightness | 12.5 mag / arcmin² |
| Physical data | |
| Redshift | 0.015547 ± 0.000150 |
| Radial velocity | 4661 ± 45 km / s |
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Stroke distance v rad / H 0 |
(199 ± 14) · 10 6 ly (61.0 ± 4.3) Mpc |
| history | |
| discovery | John Herschel |
| Discovery date | January 1, 1835 |
| Catalog names | |
| NGC 2201 • PGC 18658 • ESO 254-040 • MCG -07-13-007 • 2MASX J06133161-4342170 • SGC 061202-4341.4 • 2MASS J06133160-4342170 | |
NGC 2201 is a barred spiral galaxy of the Hubble type SBb in the constellation aft deck of the ship in the southern sky . It is estimated to be 199 million light years away from the Milky Way and has a diameter of around 65,000 ly.
It is likely to form gravitationally bound galaxy pairs with NGC 2200 .
The object was discovered on January 1st, 1835 by John Herschel .