Key facts
- Constellation
- Canis Major
- Right ascension
- 06 47 42.9
- Declination
- −26 ° 45 ′ 16 ″
- Redshift
- 0.006795 ± 0.000020
- Heliocentric radial velocity
- 2037 ± 6 km / s
- Distance
- 107 ± 49 Mly (32.9 ± 15.0 Mpc )
- Type
- SAB(s)0+ pec
- Apparent size v
- 4.2 ′ × 3.3 ′
- Notable features
- Interacts with NGC 2292
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- lenticular galaxy
- Constellation
- Canis Major
- Distance from Earth
- 27.32
- Image
- NGC 2293.jpg
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- catalog code
- LEDA 19619
- epoch
- J2000.0
- galaxy morphological type
- E
- discoverer or inventor
- John Frederick William Herschel
- time of discovery or invention
- 1835-01-20
- apparent magnitude
- 7.513
- right ascension
- 101.9288000
- declination
- -26.7543611
- radial velocity
- 1758
- redshift
- 0.006795
- Commons category
- NGC 2293
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 2293 is a lenticular galaxy located in the constellation Canis Major. It is located at a distance of circa 100 million light years from Earth, which, given its apparent dimensions, means that NGC 2293 is about 160,000 light years across. It was discovered by John Herschel on January 20, 1835. NGC 2293 forms a pair with NGC 2292 and has an HI ring that surrounds both galaxies.
The orange color and the bright center of the galaxies gives them a resemblance to carved pumpkins on Halloween.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 2293” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.