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.