Astronomical data · SIMBAD
- Object type
- G
- Distance
- 7,464 light-years
- Redshift
- z = 0.023219396666743365
- Coordinates
- RA 87.8325° · Dec -50.5829°
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Key facts
- Constellation
- Pictor
- Right ascension
- 05 51 19.8104
- Declination
- −50 ° 34 ′ 58.304 ″
- Redshift
- 0.023 389 ± 0.000 0730
- Heliocentric radial velocity
- 7,012 ± 22 km/s
- Distance
- 340.9 ± 23.9 Mly (104.52 ± 7.33 Mpc )
- Type
- S0+? pec
- Size
- ~229,500 ly (70.35 kpc ) (estimated)
- Apparent size v
- 1.1′ × 0.5′
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- lenticular galaxy
- Constellation
- Pictor
- Image
- NGC 2115 legacy dr10.jpg
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- catalog code
- Gaia DR2 4792868702709593856
- discoverer or inventor
- John Frederick William Herschel
- time of discovery or invention
- 1837-01-04
- apparent magnitude
- 10.626
- galaxy morphological type
- -1.0
- right ascension
- 87.83252693855950
- declination
- -50.58288522401980
- radial velocity
- 7004
- epoch
- J2000.0
- Commons category
- NGC 2115
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 2115 is a large lenticular galaxy in the constellation of Pictor. Its velocity with respect to the cosmic microwave background is 7,087±23 km/s, which corresponds to a Hubble distance of 340.9 ± 23.9 Mly (104.52 ± 7.33 Mpc). It was discovered by British astronomer John Herschel on 4 January 1837.
Pair of interacting galaxies
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 2115” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.