NGC 2570
| Galaxy NGC 2570 |
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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 21 m 22.5 s |
| declination | + 20 ° 54 ′ 38 ″ |
| Appearance | |
| Morphological type | Sab |
| Brightness (visual) | 14.3 mag |
| Brightness (B-band) | 15.1 mag |
| Angular expansion | 1.1 '× 0.6' |
| Position angle | 75 ° |
| Surface brightness | 13.7 mag / arcmin² |
| Physical data | |
| Affiliation | Cancer cluster |
| Redshift | 0.021902 ± 0.000015 |
| Radial velocity | 6566 ± 4 km / s |
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Stroke distance v rad / H 0 |
(290 ± 20) x 10 6 ly (88.8 ± 6.2) Mpc |
| history | |
| discovery | Ralph Copeland |
| Discovery date | February 20, 1873 |
| Catalog names | |
| NGC 2570 • UGC 4354 • PGC 23443 • CGCG 119-068 • MCG + 04-20-036 • IRAS F08184 + 2104 • 2MASX J08212252 + 2054375 • GALEX ASC J082122.59 + 205438.3 • NSA 135019 | |
NGC 2570 is a spiral galaxy of Hubble type Sab in the constellation Cancer on the ecliptic . It is an estimated 290 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 2560 , NGC 2562 , NGC 2563 , NGC 2569 .
The object was discovered by Ralph Copeland on February 20, 1873 .