NGC 2538
| Galaxy NGC 2538 |
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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 | 08 h 11 m 23.1 s |
| declination | + 03 ° 37 ′ 59 ″ |
| Appearance | |
| Morphological type | (R ') SBa |
| Brightness (visual) | 12.7 mag |
| Brightness (B-band) | 13.6 mag |
| Angular expansion | 1.5 ′ × 1.2 ′ |
| Position angle | 25 ° |
| Surface brightness | 13.2 mag / arcmin² |
| Physical data | |
| Redshift | 0.013339 +/- 0.000087 |
| Radial velocity | 3999 +/- 26 km / s |
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Stroke distance v rad / H 0 |
(172 ± 12) · 10 6 ly (52.8 ± 3.7) Mpc |
| history | |
| discovery | Edouard Stephan |
| Discovery date | February 2, 1877 |
| Catalog names | |
| NGC 2538 • UGC 4266 • PGC 22962 • CGCG 031-067 • MCG + 01-21-019 • 2MASX J08112308 + 0337587 • LDCE 0551 NED006 | |
NGC 2538 is a bar-spiral galaxy of type SBa in the constellation Little Dog . It is estimated to be 172 million light years from the Milky Way .
The object was discovered by the French astronomer Edouard Stephan on February 2, 1877.
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