Key facts
- Constellation
- Lynx
- Right ascension
- 09 17 22
- Declination
- +41 ° 59 ′ 58 ″
- Heliocentric radial velocity
- 1726 ± 10 km/s
- Type
- SB(s)a pec
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- spiral galaxy
- Constellation
- Lynx
- Distance from Earth
- 28.29
- Image
- N2798s.jpg
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- catalog code
- LEDA 26232
- galaxy morphological type
- SABab
- Commons category
- NGC 2798
- discoverer or inventor
- William Herschel
- time of discovery or invention
- 1788-01-14
- apparent magnitude
- 9.027
- right ascension
- 139.3456417
- declination
- 41.9997111
- redshift
- 0.005757
- radial velocity
- 1708
- epoch
- J2000.0
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 2798 is a barred spiral galaxy in the constellation Lynx. NGC 2798 and NGC 2799 are listed under the Arp Catalogue as Arp 283 and noted as an "interacting galaxy pair". The galaxy is listed in the New General Catalogue.
References
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 2798” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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