Key facts
- Constellation
- Lynx
- Right ascension
- 08 07 24.9118
- Declination
- +39 ° 11 ′ 40.12 ″
- Heliocentric radial velocity
- 3929 ± 1 km/s
- Distance
- 197.2 ± 13.8 Mly (60.45 ± 4.23 Mpc )
- Group or cluster
- NGC 2415 group (LGG 148)
- Type
- SAB(rs)b
- Size
- ~115,400 ly (35.37 kpc ) (estimated)
- Apparent size v
- 1.5′ × 1.5′ 1.5' x 1.5'
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- spiral galaxy
- Constellation
- Lynx
- Distance from Earth
- 57.28
- Image
- NGC 2528 SDSS.jpg
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- catalog code
- SDSS J080724.84+391140.0
- radial velocity
- 3890
- discoverer or inventor
- Édouard Stephan
- time of discovery or invention
- 1877-01-22
- redshift
- 0.013093
- apparent magnitude
- 12.249
- galaxy morphological type
- 4
- Commons category
- NGC 2528
- right ascension
- 121.8536542
- declination
- 39.1945083
- epoch
- J2000.0
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 2528 is an intermediate spiral galaxy in the constellation of Lynx. Its velocity with respect to the cosmic microwave background is 4098 ± 12 km/s, which corresponds to a Hubble distance of 60.45 ± 4.23 Mpc (~197 million light-years). It was discovered by French astronomer Édouard Stephan on 22 January 1877.
NGC 2528 is a luminous infrared galaxy (LIRG). According to the SIMBAD database, NGC 2528 is classified as a radio galaxy.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 2528” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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