NGC 262

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Galaxy
NGC 262
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NGC 262 with LEDA 212600 (l) & LEDA 212599 (or) [1] SDSS recording
NGC 262 with LEDA 212600 (l) & LEDA 212599 (or) SDSS image
AladinLite
Constellation Andromeda
Position
equinox :  J2000.0 , epoch : J2000.0
Right ascension 00 h 48 m 47.1414 s
declination + 31 ° 57 ′ 25.085 ″
Appearance
Morphological type SA (s) 0 / a: / Sy2  
Brightness  (visual) 13.1 mag
Brightness  (B-band) 14.0 mag
Angular expansion 1.1 ′ × 1.1 ′
Surface brightness 13.2 mag / arcmin²
Physical data
Affiliation NGC 266 group
NGC 315 group
LGG 14  
Redshift 0.015034 ± 0.000013  
Radial velocity 4507 ± 4 km / s  
Stroke distance
v rad  / H 0 		(208 ± 15)  ·  10 6  ly
(63.9 ± 4.5)  Mpc 
history
discovery Lewis A. Swift
Discovery date September 17, 1885
Catalog names
NGC  262 • UGC  499 • PGC  2855 • CGCG  501-20 • MCG  + 05-03-008 • IRAS  00461 + 3141 • 2MASX  J00484711 + 3157249 • Mrk  348 • GALEX ASC J004847.23 + 315726.3 • LDCE 43 NED005

NGC 262 is a lens-shaped galaxy with an active nucleus of the Hubble type S0 / a in the constellation Andromeda in the northern sky . It is an estimated 208 million light years from the Milky Way and is listed as a Seyfert-2 galaxy . With a diameter of 1.3 million light years, it is the largest known galaxy of its kind. Presumably, the system with NGC 266 is gravitationally bound .
Together with 42 other galaxies, it forms the NGC 315 group .

The object was discovered on September 17, 1885 by the American astronomer Lewis A. Swift .

Web links

Commons : NGC 262  - collection of images, videos, and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Aladin Lite
  2. ↑ a b c d e NASA / IPAC EXTRAGALACTIC DATABASE
  3. ↑ a b c d e SEDS : NGC 262
  4. ^ VizieR
  5. ↑ astronews.com
  6. ↑ KOSMOS : picture atlas of the galaxies
  7. ↑ Seligman