NGC 2636
| Galaxy NGC 2636 |
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| AladinLite | |
| Constellation | giraffe |
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Position equinox : J2000.0 , epoch : J2000.0 |
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| Right ascension | 08 h 48 m 24.4 s |
| declination | + 73 ° 40 ′ 16 ″ |
| Appearance | |
| Morphological type | E0: |
| Brightness (visual) | 13.7 mag |
| Brightness (B-band) | 14.7 mag |
| Angular expansion | 0.4 ′ × 0.4 ′ |
| Surface brightness | 11.8 mag / arcmin² |
| Physical data | |
| Redshift | 0.006911 ± 0.000030 |
| Radial velocity | 2072 ± 9 km / s |
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Stroke distance v rad / H 0 |
(98 ± 7) x 10 6 ly (30.0 ± 2.1) Mpc |
| history | |
| discovery | Ernst WL Temple |
| Discovery date | July 27, 1883 |
| Catalog names | |
| NGC 2636 • UGC 4583 • PGC 24747 • CGCG 331-067 • 2MASX J08482440 + 7340166 • 2MASS J08482454 + 7340163 • LDCE 587 NED004 | |
NGC 2636 is an elliptical dwarf galaxy of the Hubble type E0 in the constellation Camelopardalis in the northern sky . It is estimated to be 98 million light years from the Milky Way and about 10,000 light years across . It probably forms a gravitationally bound pair with IC 2389 . The galaxies NGC 2629 , NGC 2633 , NGC 2634 , NGC 2646 are still in the same area of the sky .
The object was discovered on July 27, 1883 by Ernst Wilhelm Leberecht Tempel .