NGC 2541
| Galaxy NGC 2541 |
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![NGC 2541 [1] SDSS image](https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Datei:NGC2541_-_SDSS_DR14.jpg)
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| NGC 2541 SDSS image | |
| AladinLite | |
| Constellation | lynx |
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Position equinox : J2000.0 , epoch : J2000.0 |
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| Right ascension | 08 h 14 m 40.115 s |
| declination | + 49 ° 03 ′ 42.15 ″ |
| Appearance | |
| Morphological type | SA (s) cd / LINER |
| Brightness (visual) | 11.5 likes |
| Brightness (B-band) | 12.2 mag |
| Angular expansion | 6.3 ′ × 3.2 ′ |
| Position angle | 165 ° |
| Surface brightness | 14.6 mag / arcmin² |
| Physical data | |
| Affiliation | isolated |
| Redshift | 0.001828 ± 0.000003 |
| Radial velocity | (548 ± 1) km / s |
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Stroke distance v rad / H 0 |
(26 ± 2) x 10 6 ly (7.91 ± 0.55) Mpc |
| history | |
| discovery | Wilhelm Herschel |
| Discovery date | March 9, 1788 |
| Catalog names | |
| NGC 2541 • UGC 4284 • PGC 23110 • CGCG 236-037 • MCG + 08-15-054 • IRAS 08110 + 4912 • 2MASX J08144007 + 4903411 • GC 1631 • H III 710 • h 492 • LDCE 558 NED003 • NSA 134933 • WISEA J081440.14 + 490342.9 • 2MIG 1103 | |
NGC 2541 is a bar-spiral galaxy of the Hubble type SBc with an active galaxy core in the constellation Lynx in the northern sky . It is estimated to be 26 million light years from the Milky Way and about 45,000 light years in diameter.
It forms a loose triple together with the galaxies NGC 2500 and NGC 2552 and together with them belongs to the NGC-2841 group, a group of galaxies to which the systems NGC 2537 , NGC 2681 and NGC 2841 also belong.
The object was discovered on March 9, 1788 by the German-British astronomer Friedrich Wilhelm Herschel .
Web links
Commons : NGC 2541 - collection of images, videos, and audio files
- SIMBAD Astronomical Database
- NOAO (English)
- New distance measurement, bibcode : 1998ApJ ... 507..655F (English)
- Photometric study (English)