NGC 2746
| Galaxy NGC 2746 |
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| SDSS recording | |
| AladinLite | |
| Constellation | lynx |
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Position equinox : J2000.0 , epoch : J2000.0 |
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| Right ascension | 09 h 09 m 00.9 s |
| declination | + 35 ° 22 ′ 39 ″ |
| Appearance | |
| Morphological type | SB (rs) a / AGN? |
| Brightness (visual) | 13.2 mag |
| Brightness (B-band) | 14.1 mag |
| Angular expansion | 1.6 ′ × 1.5 ′ |
| Position angle | 123 ° |
| Surface brightness | 14.0 mag / arcmin² |
| Physical data | |
| Redshift | 0.023566 ± 0.000023 |
| Radial velocity | (7065 ± 7) km / s |
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Stroke distance v rad / H 0 |
(314 ± 22) x 10 6 ly (96.4 ± 6.7) Mpc |
| history | |
| discovery | William Herschel |
| Discovery date | March 10, 1790 |
| Catalog names | |
| NGC 2746 • UGC 4770 • PGC 25533 • CGCG 180-032 • MCG + 06-20-023 • 2MASX J09090098 + 5350581 • GC 1754 • H III 825 • h 552 • LDCE 0614 NED002 | |
NGC 2746 is a barred spiral galaxy of the Hubble type SBa in the constellation Lynx in the northern sky . It is an estimated 314 million light years from the Milky Way .
The object was discovered on March 10, 1790 by Wilhelm Herschel .