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galaxy

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 “Q917950” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.