NGC 2498
| Galaxy NGC 2498 |
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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 59 m 38.8 s |
| declination | + 24 ° 58 ′ 56 ″ |
| Appearance | |
| Morphological type | SBa: |
| Brightness (visual) | 13.4 mag |
| Brightness (B-band) | 14.3 mag |
| Angular expansion | 1.1 ′ × 0.8 ′ |
| Position angle | 113 ° |
| Surface brightness | 13.1 mag / arcmin² |
| Physical data | |
| Affiliation | LGG 152 |
| Redshift | 0.015744 ± 0.000033 |
| Radial velocity | (4720 ± 10) km / s |
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Stroke distance v rad / H 0 |
(208 ± 15) · 10 6 ly (63.8 ± 4.5) Mpc |
| history | |
| discovery | Édouard Stephan |
| Discovery date | January 19, 1885 |
| Catalog names | |
| NGC 2498 • UGC 4142 • PGC 22403 • CGCG 118-034 • MCG + 04-19-015 • IRAS 07566 + 2507 • 2MASX J07593884 + 2458559 • LDCE 547 NED005 | |
NGC 2498 is a bar-spiral galaxy with extensive star formation regions of the Hubble type SBa in the constellation Gemini on the ecliptic . It is estimated to be 208 million light years away from the Milky Way and has a diameter of about 70,000 ly.
The galaxies NGC 2486 , NGC 2487 , IC 481 , IC 482 are still in the same area of the sky .
The object was discovered by Édouard Stephan on January 19, 1885 .
Web links
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