NGC 2496
| Galaxy NGC 2496 |
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| SDSS recording | |
| AladinLite | |
| Constellation | Small dog |
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Position equinox : J2000.0 , epoch : J2000.0 |
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| Right ascension | 07 h 58 m 37.3 s |
| declination | + 08 ° 01 ′ 47 ″ |
| Appearance | |
| Morphological type | E. |
| Brightness (visual) | 13.0 likes |
| Brightness (B-band) | 14.0 mag |
| Angular expansion | 1.1 ′ × 0.9 ′ |
| Position angle | 167 ° |
| Surface brightness | 13.1 mag / arcmin² |
| Physical data | |
| Redshift | 0.031875 ± 0.000037 |
| Radial velocity | (9556 ± 11) km / s |
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Stroke distance v rad / H 0 |
(421 ± 29) x 10 6 ly (129.2 ± 9.0) Mpc |
| history | |
| discovery | Lewis Swift |
| Discovery date | November 15, 1885 |
| Catalog names | |
| NGC 2496 • UGC 4127 • PGC 22359 • CGCG 031-009 • MCG + 01-21-002 • 2MASX J07583734 + 0801468 • | |
NGC 2496 is an elliptical galaxy of Hubble type E in the constellation Little Dog at the northern sky . It is estimated to be 421 million light years from the Milky Way .
The object was discovered by Lewis Swift on November 15, 1885 .