Astronomical data · SIMBAD
- Object type
- LIN
- Redshift
- z = 0.01661
- Morphology
- SAB
- Coordinates
- RA 124.8032° · Dec 20.5107°
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Key facts
- Constellation
- Cancer
- Right ascension
- 08 19 12.7681
- Declination
- +20 ° 30 ′ 38.337 ″
- Distance
- 316 Mly (96.83 M pc )
- Group or cluster
- NGC 2563 (LGG 158)
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- intermediate spiral galaxy
- Constellation
- Cancer
- Distance from Earth
- 71.71
- Image
- NGC 2558 SDSS.jpg
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- catalog code
- Gaia DR2 675717519530948096
- time of discovery or invention
- 1787-02-13
- discoverer or inventor
- William Herschel
- redshift
- 0.01661
- apparent magnitude
- 12.195
- galaxy morphological type
- 1
- Commons category
- NGC 2558
- right ascension
- 124.80316199105550
- declination
- 20.51073551615770
- radial velocity
- 4938
- epoch
- J2000.0
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 2558 is a spiral galaxy in the constellation Cancer. It was discovered on February 13, 1787, by William Herschel.
See also
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 2558” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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