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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 “NGC 2541” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.