NGC 2538

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Galaxy
NGC 2538
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SDSS recording
SDSS recording
AladinLite
Constellation Small dog
Position
equinoxJ2000.0 , epoch : J2000.0
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  
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.

Web links

Commons : NGC 2538  - collection of images, videos, and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. a b c d NASA / IPAC EXTRAGALACTIC DATABASE
  2. a b c d e f SEDS : NGC 2538
  3. Seligman