Key facts
- Constellation
- Lynx
- Right ascension
- 07 02 33.0779
- Declination
- +50 ° 35 ′ 25.930 ″
- Redshift
- 0.021 000 ± 0.000 200
- Heliocentric radial velocity
- 6,296 ± 60 km/s
- Distance
- 306.4 ± 21.8 Mly (93.94 ± 6.69 Mpc )
- Group or cluster
- LDC 484
- Type
- S0/a
- Size
- ~186,200 ly (57.08 kpc ) (estimated)
- Apparent size v
- 1.3′ × 0.4′
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- lenticular galaxy
- Constellation
- Lynx
- Distance from Earth
- 86.41
- Image
- NGC 2315 DSS.jpg
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- Commons category
- NGC 2315
- catalog code
- LEDA 20045
- discoverer or inventor
- John Frederick William Herschel
- time of discovery or invention
- 1831-02-16
- redshift
- 0.020544
- apparent magnitude
- 9.665
- galaxy morphological type
- S0a
- right ascension
- 105.6376583
- declination
- 50.5906056
- radial velocity
- 6159
- epoch
- J2000.0
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 2315 is a lenticular galaxy in the constellation of Lynx. Its velocity with respect to the cosmic microwave background is 6,369±60 km/s, which corresponds to a Hubble distance of 306.4 ± 21.8 Mly (93.94 ± 6.69 Mpc). It was discovered by British astronomer John Herschel on 16 February 1831.
NGC 2315 is a radio galaxy, i.e. it has giant regions of radio emission extending well beyond its visible structure. It also has a possible active galactic nucleus, i.e. it has a compact region at the center of a galaxy that emits a significant amount of energy across the electromagnetic spectrum, with characteristics indicating that this luminosity is not produced by the stars.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 2315” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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