Q575282

Also known as Dusty Hand Galaxy

galaxy

Key facts

Constellation: Camelopardalis
Right ascension: 06 18 37.710
Declination: +78 ° 21 ′ 25.27 ″
Redshift: 0.002 999 ± 0.000 003
Heliocentric radial velocity: 899 ± 1 km/s
Galactocentric velocity: 1,043 ± 6 km/s
Distance: 63.76 ± 26.62 Mly (19.550 ± 8.161 Mpc )
Apparent magnitude v: 11.38 ± 0.13
Apparent magnitude b: 10.59 ± 0.13
Magnitude j: 8.228 ± 0.020
Magnitude h: 7.416 ± 0.021
Magnitude k: 7.063 ± 0.023
Type: SB(s)ab pec; HII ;LIRG
Size: 119,760 ly , (36.72 kpc ), ( diameter ; 25.0 B-mag arcsec ) , 124,750 ly × 58,643 ly, (38.25 kpc × 17.98 kpc), ( diameter ; "total" magnitude )
Apparent size v: 7.971 42 ′ × 3.492 281 35 ′

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Wikidata facts

Distance from Earth: 17.9
Radius: 40000
Image: NGC 2146.jpg

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Commons category: NGC 2146
radial velocity: 893
catalog code: [NKB95] N2146
time of discovery or invention: 1876-00-00
galaxy morphological type: SB(s)ab.pec
apparent magnitude: 7.063
right ascension: 94.6571250
declination: 78.3570194
redshift: 0.002979

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NGC 2146 (also known as the Dusty Hand Galaxy) is a barred spiral galaxy type SB(s)ab pec in the constellation Camelopardalis. The galaxy was discovered in 1876 by Friedrich August Theodor Winnecke.

NGC 2146 has an isophotal diameter of 38.3 kiloparsecs (125,000 light-years), slightly larger than the Milky Way. The galaxy's most conspicuous feature is the dusty lanes of a spiral arm lying across the core of the galaxy as seen from Earth, the arm having been bent 45 degrees by a close encounter with a smaller galaxy, possibly NGC 2146A, about 0.8 billion years ago. This close encounter is credited with the relatively high rates of star formation that qualify NGC 2146 as a starburst galaxy.