NGC 2654
| Galaxy NGC 2654 |
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| Photo from the Hubble Space Telescope | |
| AladinLite | |
| Constellation | Big Bear |
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Position equinox : J2000.0 , epoch : J2000.0 |
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| Right ascension | 08 h 49 m 11.9 s |
| declination | + 60 ° 13 ′ 16 ″ |
| Appearance | |
| Morphological type | SBab: sp; AGN? / RET |
| Brightness (visual) | 11.9 likes |
| Brightness (B-band) | 12.7 mag |
| Angular expansion | 4.2 ′ × 0.8 ′ |
| Position angle | 63 ° |
| Surface brightness | 13.1 mag / arcmin² |
| Physical data | |
| Affiliation | LGG 167 |
| Redshift | 0.004465 ± 0.000006 |
| Radial velocity | 1339 ± 2 km / s |
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Stroke distance v rad / H 0 |
(63 ± 5) · 10 6 ly (19.4 ± 1.4) Mpc |
| history | |
| discovery | Ernst Wilhelm L. Temple |
| Discovery date | August 18, 1882 |
| Catalog names | |
| NGC 2654 • UGC 4605 • PGC 24784 • CGCG 288-006 • MCG + 10-13-017 • IRAS 08451 + 6024 • 2MASX J08491187 + 6013160 • KARA 285 • LDCE 0603 NED002 | |
NGC 2654 is a bar-spiral galaxy in the constellation Great Bear . It is an estimated 63 million light years from the Milky Way . The galaxy was discovered on August 18, 1882 by the astronomer Ernst Wilhelm Leberecht Tempel with a 28 cm telescope.
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