NGC 2852
| Galaxy NGC 2852 |
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| SDSS | |
| AladinLite | |
| Constellation | lynx |
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Position equinox : J2000.0 , epoch : J2000.0 |
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| Right ascension | 09 h 23 m 14.6 s |
| declination | + 40 ° 09 ′ 50 ″ |
| Appearance | |
| Morphological type | SAB (r) a? |
| Brightness (visual) | 13.3 mag |
| Brightness (B-band) | 14.2 mag |
| Angular expansion | 1 ′ × 0.6 ′ |
| Position angle | 165 ° |
| Surface brightness | 12.6 mag / arcmin² |
| Physical data | |
| Redshift | 0.005941 +/- 0.000017 |
| Radial velocity | 1781 +/- 5 km / s |
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Stroke distance v rad / H 0 |
(79 ± 6) · 10 6 ly (24.3 ± 1.7) Mpc |
| history | |
| discovery | William Herschel |
| Discovery date | March 18, 1787 |
| Catalog names | |
| NGC 2852 • UGC 4986 • PGC 26571 • CGCG 209-059 • MCG + 07-19-065 • 2MASX J09231456 + 4009499 • GC 1831 • H III 629 • h 588 • LDCE 628 NED003 | |
NGC 2852 is a barred spiral galaxy of the Hubble type SBa in the constellation Lynx in the northern sky . It is estimated to be 79 million light years away from the Milky Way and has a diameter of around 25,000 ly.
In the same area of the sky are the galaxies NGC 2844 , NGC 2853 , NGC 2860 , among others .
The object was discovered by Wilhelm Herschel on March 18, 1787 .