Astronomical data · SIMBAD
- Object type
- GiG
- Redshift
- z = 0.005447931743701062
- Coordinates
- RA 124.6900° · Dec -25.4995°
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Key facts
- Constellation
- Puppis
- Right ascension
- 08 18 45.6034
- Declination
- −25 ° 29 ′ 58.053 ″
- Heliocentric radial velocity
- 1637 ± 3 km/s
- Distance
- 91.3 ± 6.5 Mly (28.00 ± 1.98 Mpc )
- Group or cluster
- PGC 80593 Group
- Type
- (R')SB(rs)ab pec?
- Size
- ~64,500 ly (19.77 kpc ) (estimated)
- Apparent size v
- 2.9′ × 1.7′
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- spiral galaxy
- Constellation
- Puppis
- Distance from Earth
- 22.99
- Image
- NGC 2566 imaged by the Hubble Space Telescope.jpg
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- catalog code
- [VDD93] 74
- galaxy morphological type
- SBa
- Commons category
- NGC 2566
- discoverer or inventor
- William Herschel
- time of discovery or invention
- 1785-00-00
- redshift
- 0.005460
- radial velocity
- 1649
- apparent magnitude
- 7.769
- right ascension
- 124.6900333
- declination
- -25.4995194
- epoch
- J2000.0
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 2566 is a barred spiral galaxy in the constellation of Puppis. Its velocity with respect to the cosmic microwave background is 1898 ± 19 km/s, which corresponds to a Hubble distance of 91.3 ± 6.5 Mly (28.00 ± 1.98 Mpc). However, five non-redshift measurements give a much closer distance of 35.39 ± 8.42 Mly (10.852 ± 2.583 Mpc). It was discovered by German-British astronomer William Herschel on 6 March 1785.
Morphology
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 2566” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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