NGC 2701
| Galaxy NGC 2701 |
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| SDSS recording | |
| AladinLite | |
| Constellation | Big Bear |
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Position equinox : J2000.0 , epoch : J2000.0 |
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| Right ascension | 08 h 59 m 05.7 s |
| declination | + 53 ° 46 ′ 18 ″ |
| Appearance | |
| Morphological type | SAB (rs) c: |
| Brightness (visual) | 12.0 mag |
| Brightness (B-band) | 12.7 mag |
| Angular expansion | 2.2 ′ × 1.6 ′ |
| Position angle | 23 ° |
| Surface brightness | 13.2 mag / arcmin² |
| Physical data | |
| Redshift | 0.007759 ± 0.000017 |
| Radial velocity | (2326 ± 5) km / s |
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Stroke distance v rad / H 0 |
(106 ± 8) · 10 6 ly (32.5 ± 2.3) Mpc |
| history | |
| discovery | William Herschel |
| Discovery date | March 18, 1790 |
| Catalog names | |
| NGC 2701 • UGC 4695 • PGC 25237 • CGCG 264-043 • MCG + 09-15-063 • IRAS 08554 + 5357 • 2MASX J08590572 + 5346183 • GC 1728 • H IV 66 • h 537 • | |
NGC 2701 is a bar-spiral galaxy of the Hubble type SBc in the constellation Great Bear in the northern sky . It is an estimated 106 million light years from the Milky Way and about 70,000 light years in diameter .
The object was discovered by Wilhelm Herschel on March 18, 1790 .