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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′
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Distance from Earth
- 3.1
- Image
- NGC2403 Galaxy from the Mount Lemmon SkyCenter Schulman Telescope courtesy Adam Block.jpg
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- Commons category
- NGC 2403
- catalog code
- [VDD93] 65
- Commons gallery
- NGC 2403
- time of discovery or invention
- 1788-11-01
- galaxy morphological type
- SBc
- apparent magnitude
- 6.191
- redshift
- 0.000430
- right ascension
- 114.2141500
- declination
- 65.6025472
- radial velocity
- 129
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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
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