NGC 2486
| Galaxy NGC 2486 |
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| SDSS recording | |
| AladinLite | |
| Constellation | Twins |
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Position equinox : J2000.0 , epoch : J2000.0 |
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| Right ascension | 07 h 57 m 56.5 s |
| declination | + 25 ° 09 ′ 39 ″ |
| Appearance | |
| Morphological type | S (r) b / Sy2 |
| Brightness (visual) | 13.3 mag |
| Brightness (B-band) | 14.2 mag |
| Angular expansion | 1.7 ′ × 0.9 ′ |
| Position angle | 97 ° |
| Surface brightness | 13.6 mag / arcmin² |
| Physical data | |
| Affiliation | LGG 152 |
| Redshift | 0.015507 ± 0.000007 |
| Radial velocity | (4649 ± 2) km / s |
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Stroke distance v rad / H 0 |
(205 ± 14) · 10 6 ly (62.8 ± 4.4) Mpc |
| history | |
| discovery | Albert Marth |
| Discovery date | November 7, 1864 |
| Catalog names | |
| NGC 2486 • UGC 4123 • PGC 22317 • CGCG 118-029 • MCG + 04-19-011 • 2MASX J07575646 + 2509393 • HOLM 90B • LDCE 547 NED002 | |
NGC 2486 is a bar-spiral galaxy with an active nucleus of the Hubble type SBb in the constellation Gemini on the ecliptic . It is an estimated 205 million light years away from the Milky Way and has a diameter of around 170,000 ly. It is likely to form a bound galaxy pair with NGC 2487 .
The galaxies NGC 2498 , IC 481 , IC 482 are still in the same area of the sky .
The object was discovered by Albert Marth on November 7, 1864 .
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