Key facts
- Constellation
- Pyxis
- Right ascension
- 08 33 22.841
- Declination
- −22 ° 58 ′ 25.21 ″
- Heliocentric radial velocity
- 1,675 km/s
- Distance
- 78 Mly (24 Mpc )
- Type
- SA(s)b
- Mass
- (7.50 ± 0.87) × 10 M ☉ . M ☉
- Size
- 59.56 kiloparsecs (194,200 light-years ) (diameter; 25.0 mag/arcsec B-band isophote )
- Apparent size v
- 7.59′ × 1.70′
- Notable features
- Edge-on galaxy
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Wikidata facts
- Distance from Earth
- 15.19
- Image
- Phot-09g-02-hires.jpg
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- catalog code
- [VDD93] 76
- galaxy morphological type
- Sb
- Commons category
- NGC 2613
- time of discovery or invention
- 1784-11-20
- redshift
- 0.005597
- apparent magnitude
- 6.825
- right ascension
- 128.3451708
- declination
- -22.9736694
- radial velocity
- 1685
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NGC 2613 is a spiral galaxy in the southern constellation of Pyxis, next to the western constellation border with Puppis. It was discovered by the German-born astronomer William Herschel on November 20, 1784. With an apparent visual magnitude of 10.5, the galaxy is faintly visible using a telescope with a 100 mm (4 in) aperture. It appears spindle-shaped as it is almost edge-on to observers on Earth.
The morphological classification of NGC 2613 is SA(s)b, indicating a spiral galaxy with no bar or ring, and moderately tightly wound spiral arms. It is inclined by an angle of approximately 79° to the line of sight from the Earth and is oriented with the long axis along a position angle of 133°. The radius of neutral hydrogen in the galaxy is about 35 kpc, and the mass of the neutral hydrogen is (8.73±0.32)×10 M☉. The galaxy has a combined dynamic mass of (7.50±0.87)×10 M☉.