Astronomical data · SIMBAD
- Object type
- GiP
- Redshift
- z = 0.004503247880706773
- Morphology
- SB
- Coordinates
- RA 145.8001° · Dec 31.9287°
via SIMBAD · CDS Strasbourg
Key facts
- Constellation
- Leo
- Right ascension
- 09 43 12.0423
- Declination
- +31 ° 55 ′ 43.503 ″
- Redshift
- 0.005 132 ± 0.000 009 19
- Heliocentric radial velocity
- 1,539 ± 3 km/s
- Distance
- 45.69 ± 13.40 Mly (14.010 ± 4.107 Mpc )
- Group or cluster
- NGC 7329 group (LGG 462)
- Apparent magnitude v
- 12.9g
- Type
- SB C
- Size
- ~35,200 ly (10.78 kpc ) (estimated)
- Apparent size v
- 1.89′ × 1.30′
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- intermediate spiral galaxy
- Constellation
- Leo
- Distance from Earth
- 25.78
- Image
- NGC 2968 SDSS.jpg
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- redshift
- 0.00513
- catalog code
- LEDA 27800
- discoverer or inventor
- William Herschel
- time of discovery or invention
- 1785-00-00
- galaxy morphological type
- SAB0
- apparent magnitude
- 8.431
- Commons category
- NGC 2968
- right ascension
- 145.80010678610760
- declination
- 31.92871071212900
- radial velocity
- 1534
- epoch
- J2000.0
Sources (1)
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 2968 is a barred spiral galaxy in the constellation of Leo. Its velocity with respect to the cosmic microwave background is 1,804±19 km/s, which corresponds to a Hubble distance of 86.8 ± 6.1 Mly (26.61 ± 1.88 Mpc). However, five non-redshift measurements give a much closer mean distance of 45.69 ± 13.40 Mly (14.010 ± 4.107 Mpc). It was discovered by German-British astronomer William Herschel on 7 December 1785.
NGC 2968 has a possible active galactic nucleus, i.e. it has a compact region at the center of a galaxy that emits a significant amount of energy across the electromagnetic spectrum, with characteristics indicating that this luminosity is not produced by the stars.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 2968” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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