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galaxy

Astronomical data · SIMBAD

Object type
GiG
Redshift
z = 0.004422833612814259
Morphology
SBc
Coordinates
RA 137.0259° · Dec 78.0853°
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Key facts

Constellation
Camelopardalis
Right ascension
09 08 06.196
Declination
+78 ° 05 ′ 06.57 ″
Heliocentric radial velocity
1339 km/s
Distance
67.35 ± 10.92 Mly (20.650 ± 3.347 Mpc )
Group or cluster
NGC 2715 group (LGG 165)
Type
SAB(rs)c
Size
98,000 ly (30,100 pc )
Apparent size v
4.9 ′ × 1.7 ′

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Encyclopedic overview

NGC 2715 is an intermediate spiral galaxy in the constellation Camelopardalis. It was discovered in 1871 by Alphonse Borrelly. It is an intermediate spiral galaxy that is 4.9 arcminutes wide.

NGC 2655 group

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 2715” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.