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.