NGC 2337
| Galaxy NGC 2337 |
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| High-resolution image of the galaxy NGC 2337, created with the help of the Hubble space telescope | |
| AladinLite | |
| Constellation | lynx |
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Position equinox : J2000.0 , epoch : J2000.0 |
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| Right ascension | 07 h 10 m 13.6 s |
| declination | + 44 ° 27 ′ 26 ″ |
| Appearance | |
| Morphological type | IBm |
| Brightness (visual) | 12.4 mag |
| Brightness (B-band) | 13.0 likes |
| Angular expansion | 2.1 ′ × 1.4 ′ |
| Position angle | 120 ° |
| Surface brightness | 13.4 mag / arcmin² |
| Physical data | |
| Redshift | 0.001454 ± 0.000003 |
| Radial velocity | 436 ± 1 km / s |
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Stroke distance v rad / H 0 |
(20 ± 1) x 10 6 ly (6.26 ± 0.44) Mpc |
| history | |
| discovery | Édouard Stephan |
| Discovery date | January 17, 1877 |
| Catalog names | |
| NGC 2337 • UGC 3711 • PGC 20298 • CGCG 205-023 • MCG + 07-15-010 • IRAS 7066 + 4432 • KUG 706 + 445 • 2MASX J07101357 + 4427264 • | |
NGC 2337 is an irregular dwarf galaxy of the Hubble type IBm in the constellation Lynx in the northern sky . It is estimated to be 20 million light years from the Milky Way and about 10,000 ly in diameter.
The object was discovered on January 17, 1877 by Édouard Stephan with an 80 cm reflector telescope . Johan Dreyer listed the galaxy a little later in his New General Catalog .
Web links
- SIMBAD Astronomical Database
- astronews.com: Picture of the day August 9, 2016