NGC 2715
Galaxy data from NGC 2715 |
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AladinLite | |
Constellation | giraffe |
Position equinox : J2000.0 , epoch : J2000.0 |
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Right ascension | 09 h 08 m 06.2 s |
declination | + 78 ° 05 ′ 07 ″ |
Appearance | |
Morphological type | SAB (rs) c |
Brightness (visual) | 11.1 mag |
Brightness (B-band) | 11.8 mag |
Angular expansion | 4.8 ′ × 1.6 ′ |
Position angle | 22 ° |
Surface brightness | 13.2 mag / arcmin² |
Physical data | |
Affiliation | LGG 165 |
Redshift | 0.004466 ± 0.000013 |
Radial velocity | (1339 ± 4) km / s |
Stroke distance v rad / H 0 |
(66 ± 5) x 10 6 ly (20.2 ± 1.4) Mpc |
history | |
discovery | Alphonse Borrelly |
Discovery date | 1871 |
Catalog names | |
NGC 2715 • UGC 4759 • PGC 25676 • CGCG 350-012 • MCG + 13-07-015 • IRAS 09018 + 7817 • 2MASX J09080619 + 7805065 • GC 5443 • LDCE 602 NED003 |
NGC 2715 is a barred spiral galaxy of the Hubble type SBc in the constellation Giraffe in the northern sky . It is estimated 66 million light years away from the Milky Way and has a diameter of about 90,000 ly.
Together with NGC 2591 , NGC 2655 , NGC 2748 , it forms the NGC 2655 group .
The property was discovered by Alphonse Louis Nicolas Borrelly in 1871 .