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Within Vinony's link graph, NGC 2848 is referenced by 426 other articles, and connects out to list of stars in Hydra, light-year and parsec.
Vinony files it under Astronomical objects discovered in 1785, Discoveries by William Herschel and Hydra (constellation).
Its subject is documented across 28 Wikipedia language editions.
Key facts
- Constellation
- Hydra
- Right ascension
- 09 20 09.8143
- Declination
- −16 ° 31 ′ 33.012 ″
- Heliocentric radial velocity
- 2036 ± 4 km/s
- Distance
- 61.62 ± 5.77 Mly (18.892 ± 1.769 Mpc )
- Type
- SAB(s)c?
- Size
- ~52,600 ly (16.13 kpc ) (estimated)
- Apparent size v
- 2.5′ × 1.5′
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- spiral galaxy
- Constellation
- Hydra
- Distance from Earth
- 29.77
- Image
- NGC 2848 DSS.jpg
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- catalog code
- Gaia DR2 5682691883836713984
- galaxy morphological type
- Sc
- discoverer or inventor
- William Herschel
- time of discovery or invention
- 1785-12-31
- redshift
- 0.006818
- apparent magnitude
- 9.437
- right ascension
- 140.04116517937890
- declination
- -16.52583001917980
- radial velocity
- 2034.5
- epoch
- J2000.0
- Commons category
- NGC 2848
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 2848 is an intermediate spiral galaxy in the constellation of Hydra. Its velocity with respect to the cosmic microwave background is 2,361 ± 23 km/s, which corresponds to a Hubble distance of 34.82 ± 2.46 Mpc (~114 million light-years). It was discovered by German-British astronomer William Herschel on 31 December 1785.
To date, 13 non-redshift measurements give a distance of 18.892 ± 6.377 Mpc (~61.6 million light-years), which is outside the Hubble distance values. Since this galaxy is relatively close to the Local Group, it is likely that this value is closer to the true distance of NGC 2848. It is with the average value of independent measurements, when they exist, that the NASA/IPAC database calculates the diameter of a galaxy.
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