Astronomical data · SIMBAD
- Object type
- GiG
- Redshift
- z = 0.011574674103375877
- Morphology
- SBb
- Coordinates
- RA 117.9779° · Dec 73.0157°
via SIMBAD · CDS Strasbourg
Key facts
- Constellation
- Camelopardalis
- Right ascension
- 07 51 54.772
- Declination
- +73 ° 00 ′ 56.42 ″
- Heliocentric radial velocity
- 3450 km/s
- Distance
- 180 million ly
- Group or cluster
- NGC 2523 Group
- Type
- SBc
- Size
- ~117,900 ly (36.14 kpc ) (estimated)
- Apparent size v
- 2.633 x 1.159 arcmin
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- intermediate spiral galaxy
- Constellation
- Camelopardalis
- Distance from Earth
- 50.98
- Image
- A curious supernova in NGC 2441.jpg
Show 13 more facts
- catalog code
- Gaia DR2 1134995552360379520
- radial velocity
- 3461
- Commons category
- NGC 2441
- discoverer or inventor
- Wilhelm Tempel
- time of discovery or invention
- 1882-00-00
- apparent magnitude
- 9.952
- galaxy morphological type
- SBc/Sc
- redshift
- 0.011575
- right ascension
- 117.97786850335810
- declination
- 73.01569751033280
- epoch
- J2000.0
- right ascension component of proper motion
- -0.150
- declination component of proper motion
- 2.709
via Wikidata · CC0
~1 min read
Encyclopedic overview
NGC 2441 is a barred spiral galaxy located in the northern constellation of Camelopardalis. Its velocity with respect to the cosmic microwave background is 3492 ± 2 km/s, which corresponds to a Hubble distance of 168.0 ± 11.8 Mly (51.51 ± 3.61 Mpc). In addition, 16 non-redshift measurements give a distance of 176.16 ± 16.80 Mly (54.012 ± 5.151 Mpc). The galaxy was discovered by German astronomer Wilhelm Tempel on 8 August 1882.
According to A.M. Garcia, NGC 2441 is a member of the NGC 2523 galaxy group (also known as LGG 154). This group contains five galaxies, including NGC 2523, NGC 2550A, UGC 4041, and UGC 4199.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 2441” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.