Astronomical data · SIMBAD
- Object type
- GiG
- Redshift
- z = 0.0018663649481898137
- Morphology
- SAB
- Coordinates
- RA 123.6672° · Dec 49.0617°
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Key facts
- Constellation
- Lynx
- Right ascension
- 08 14 40.1
- Declination
- +49 ° 03 ′ 41 ″
- Redshift
- 548 ± 1 km/ s
- Distance
- 41 ± 5 M ly , (12.5 ± 1.4 M pc )
- Type
- SA(s)cd
- Apparent size v
- 6.3 ′ × 3.2 ′
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- spiral galaxy
- Constellation
- Lynx
- Distance from Earth
- 11.2
- Image
- NGC2541 - Iotw2030a.jpg
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- right ascension
- 123.6671268901450
- catalog code
- LEDA 23110
- Commons category
- NGC 2541
- discoverer or inventor
- William Herschel
- time of discovery or invention
- 1788-03-09
- redshift
- 0.001861
- apparent magnitude
- 10.090
- radial velocity
- 601
- galaxy morphological type
- SAcd
- declination
- 49.06168290901389
- epoch
- J2000.0
- right ascension component of proper motion
- -0.827
- declination component of proper motion
- -0.755
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 2541 is an unbarred spiral galaxy located about 40 million light-years away. It is in the NGC 2841 group of galaxies with NGC 2500, NGC 2537, and NGC 2552.
References
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 2541” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.