NGC 2618
| Galaxy NGC 2618 |
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| SDSS recording | |
| AladinLite | |
| Constellation | Water snake |
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Position equinox : J2000.0 , epoch : J2000.0 |
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| Right ascension | 08 h 35 m 53.5 s |
| declination | + 00 ° 42 ′ 26 ″ |
| Appearance | |
| Morphological type | (R ') SA (rs) from |
| Brightness (visual) | 12.7 mag |
| Brightness (B-band) | 13.5 likes |
| Angular expansion | 2.5 ′ × 2 ′ |
| Position angle | 140 ° |
| Surface brightness | 14.3 mag / arcmin² |
| Physical data | |
| Redshift | 0.013446 ± 0.000023 |
| Radial velocity | (4031 ± 7) km / s |
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Stroke distance v rad / H 0 |
(173 ± 12) · 10 6 ly (53.1 ± 3.7) Mpc |
| history | |
| discovery | Wilhelm Herschel |
| Discovery date | December 20, 1784 |
| Catalog names | |
| NGC 2618 • UGC 4492 • PGC 24156 • CGCG 004-074 • MCG + 00-22-023 • 2MASX J08355356 + 0042259 • GC 1675 • H III 257 • h 515 • LDCE 0584 NED001 | |
NGC 2618 is a spiral galaxy of Hubble type Sab in the constellation Hydra. It is an estimated 173 million light years from the Milky Way .
The object was discovered by Wilhelm Herschel on December 20, 1784 .