NGC 2560
| Galaxy NGC 2560 |
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| SDSS recording | |
| AladinLite | |
| Constellation | cancer |
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Position equinox : J2000.0 , epoch : J2000.0 |
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| Right ascension | 08 h 19 m 51.9 s |
| declination | + 20 ° 59 ′ 06 ″ |
| Appearance | |
| Morphological type | S0 / a / LINER |
| Brightness (visual) | 13.7 mag |
| Brightness (B-band) | 14.6 mag |
| Angular expansion | 1.4 '× 0.3' |
| Position angle | 93 ° |
| Surface brightness | 12.6 mag / arcmin² |
| Physical data | |
| Affiliation | Cancer Cluster WBL 178 NGC 2563 Group LGG 158 |
| Redshift | 0.016325 ± 0.000196 |
| Radial velocity | 4894 ± 59 km / s |
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Stroke distance v rad / H 0 |
(215 ± 15) x 10 6 ly (65.9 ± 4.7) Mpc |
| history | |
| discovery | Heinrich Louis d'Arrest |
| Discovery date | March 17, 1862 |
| Catalog names | |
| NGC 2560 • UGC 4337 • PGC 23367 • CGCG 119-058 • MCG + 04-20-027 • 2MASX J08195187 + 2059061 • 2XMM J081952.1 + 205909 • NSA 084196 • LDCE 571 NED008 | |
NGC 2560 is a lens-shaped galaxy with an active nucleus of the Hubble type S0 / a in the constellation Cancer on the ecliptic . It is an estimated 215 million light years from the Milky Way and about 95,000 light years across.
In the same area of the sky are the galaxies NGC 2556 , NGC 2562 , NGC 2563 , NGC 2569 .
The object was discovered on March 17, 1862 by Heinrich Louis d'Arrest .