Astronomical data · SIMBAD
- Object type
- GiG
- Redshift
- z = 0.011594687949087766
- Morphology
- S_AB_a
- Coordinates
- RA 124.9513° · Dec 22.0314°
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Key facts
- Constellation
- Cancer
- Right ascension
- 08 19 48.3092
- Declination
- +22 ° 01 ′ 53.087 ″
- Heliocentric radial velocity
- 3,582 ± 1 km/s
- Distance
- 183.5 ± 12.9 Mly (56.26 ± 3.95 Mpc )
- Group or cluster
- NGC 2545 group (LGG 156)
- Type
- (R')SBbc?
- Size
- ~106,600 ly (32.68 kpc ) (estimated)
- Apparent size v
- 1.9′ × 0.9′
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Wikidata facts
- Constellation
- Cancer
- Distance from Earth
- 52.44
- Image
- NGC 2565 SDSS.jpg
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- redshift
- 0.011948
- catalog code
- Gaia DR2 676433542118107136
- time of discovery or invention
- 1886-00-00
- apparent magnitude
- 12.050
- galaxy morphological type
- 1
- Commons category
- NGC 2565
- right ascension
- 124.95125192392330
- declination
- 22.03142618419270
- radial velocity
- 3525
- epoch
- J2000.0
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 2565 is a barred spiral galaxy in the constellation of Cancer. Its velocity with respect to the cosmic microwave background for is 3,814±16 km/s, which corresponds to a Hubble distance of 183.5 ± 12.9 Mly (56.26 ± 3.95 Mpc). Additionally, 34 non-redshift measurements give a distance of 169.79 ± 4.64 Mly (52.057 ± 1.422 Mpc). It was discovered by German-British astronomer J. Gerhard Lohse (bio-fr) in 1886.
NGC 2565 is a galaxy whose nucleus shines brightly in the ultraviolet. It is listed in the Markarian catalogue as Mrk 386.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 2565” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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