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Key facts
- Constellation
- Camelopardalis
- Right ascension
- 07 36 51.298
- Declination
- +65 ° 36 ′ 09.662 ″
- Heliocentric radial velocity
- 133 ± 0 km/s
- Distance
- 9.65 Mly (2.96 Mpc )
- Type
- SAB(s)cd
- Size
- ~90,300 ly (27.69 kpc ) (estimated)
- Apparent size v
- 21.9′ × 12.3′
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 2403 (also known as Caldwell 7) is an intermediate spiral galaxy in the constellation Camelopardalis. It is an outlying member of the M81 Group, and is approximately 9.7 million light-years distant.
Observation history
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 2403” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.