NGC 2900
| Galaxy NGC 2900 |
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| SDSS recording | |
| AladinLite | |
| Constellation | Water snake |
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Position equinox : J2000.0 , epoch : J2000.0 |
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| Right ascension | 09 h 30 m 15.2 s |
| declination | + 04 ° 08 ′ 39 ″ |
| Appearance | |
| Morphological type | SBcd |
| Brightness (visual) | 13.5 likes |
| Brightness (B-band) | 14.2 mag |
| Angular expansion | 1.3 ′ × 1.1 ′ |
| Position angle | 150 ° |
| Surface brightness | 13.7 mag / arcmin² |
| Physical data | |
| Redshift | 0.017805 ± 0.000021 |
| Radial velocity | (5338 ± 6) km / s |
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Stroke distance v rad / H 0 |
(232 ± 16) x 10 6 ly (71.2 ± 5.0) Mpc |
| history | |
| discovery | Lewis Swift |
| Discovery date | March 10, 1886 |
| Catalog names | |
| NGC 2900 • UGC 5065 • PGC 26974 • CGCG 034-055 • MCG + 01-24-026 • 2MASX J09301525 + 0408402 • | |
NGC 2900 is a barred spiral galaxy of the Hubble type SBc in the constellation Water Snake. It is an estimated 232 million light years from the Milky Way .
The object was discovered by Lewis Swift on March 10, 1886 .
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