PGC 2
| Galaxy LEDA / PGC 2 |
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| AladinLite | |
| Constellation | Andromeda |
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Position equinox : J2000.0 , epoch : J2000.0 |
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| Right ascension | 00 h 00 m 01.7 s |
| declination | + 47 ° 16 ′ 29 ″ |
| Appearance | |
| Morphological type | SB (rs) b |
| Physical data | |
| Affiliation | WBL 729 IC 1525 group LGG 485 |
| Redshift | 0.016735 ± 0.000030 |
| Radial velocity | 5017 ± 9 km / s |
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Stroke distance v rad / H 0 |
(233 ± 16) x 10 6 ly (71.5 ± 5.0) Mpc |
| history | |
| Catalog names | |
| UGC 12889 • PGC 2 • CGCG 548-022 • CGCG 549-013 • MCG + 08-01-018 • IRAS 23574 + 4659 • 2MASS J00000166 + 4716286 • USGC U864 NED02 | |
LEDA / PGC 2 is a bar-spiral galaxy of the Hubble type SBb in the constellation Andromeda in the northern sky . It is around 233 million light years away from the Milky Way and has a diameter of around 130,000 light years.
The object is a member of the galaxy group WBL 729 , a group of gravitationally bound galaxies with an average radial speed of about 5020 km / s. This group also includes PGC 18 , PGC 676 , PGC 73195 and IC 1525 .