NGC 2838
| Galaxy NGC 2838 |
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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 20 m 43.0 s |
| declination | + 39 ° 18 ′ 57 ″ |
| Appearance | |
| Morphological type | E0 |
| Brightness (visual) | 13.8 mag |
| Brightness (B-band) | 14.8 mag |
| Angular expansion | 0.9 ′ × 0.9 ′ |
| Surface brightness | 13.6 mag / arcmin² |
| Physical data | |
| Redshift | 0.027572 +/- 0.000173 |
| Radial velocity | 8266 +/- 52 km / s |
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Stroke distance v rad / H 0 |
(369 ± 26) x 10 6 ly (113.1 ± 7.9) Mpc |
| history | |
| discovery | William Herschel |
| Discovery date | March 18, 1787 |
| Catalog names | |
| NGC 2838 • PGC 26434 • CGCG 209-055 • MCG + 07-19-061 • 2MASX J09204305 + 3918568 • GC 1820 • H III 627 • h 583 • | |
NGC 2838 is an elliptical galaxy from the Hubble type E0 in the constellation Lynx the northern sky . It is an estimated 369 million light years away from the Milky Way and has a diameter of about 100,000 ly.
In the same area of the sky there are u. a. the galaxies NGC 2844 and NGC 2852 .
The object was discovered by William Herschel on March 18, 1787 .