NGC 2715
| Galaxy data from NGC 2715 |
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| AladinLite | |
| Constellation | giraffe |
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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 |
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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 .