Key facts
- Constellation
- Cancer
- Right ascension
- 8 00 36.7
- Declination
- 22 ° 24 ′ 00 ″
- Redshift
- 0.018366/5506 km/s
- Distance
- 254,300,000 ly
- Type
- SAB(rs)bc
- Size
- ~87,630 ly (estimated)
- Apparent size v
- 1.07 × 0.98
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- spiral galaxy
- Constellation
- Cancer
- Image
- NGC 2503 DSS.jpg
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- declination
- 22.4000667
- catalog code
- LEDA 22453
- right ascension
- 120.1526625
- discoverer or inventor
- Albert Marth
- time of discovery or invention
- 1865-02-17
- redshift
- 0.018366
- apparent magnitude
- 12.913
- galaxy morphological type
- SABb
- Commons category
- NGC 2503
- radial velocity
- 5460
- epoch
- J2000.0
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 2503 is an isolated spiral galaxy approximately 254 million light-years away in the constellation Cancer. The galaxy was discovered on February 17, 1865 by astronomer Albert Marth.
See also
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