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Vinony's link graph records 320 inbound references to NGC 2683, and connects out to list of NGC objects (2001–3000), epoch and Messier 47.
It sits within the topics Field galaxies, Lynx (constellation) and NGC objects.
Vinony links it to 41 Wikipedia language editions.
Key facts
- Constellation
- Lynx
- Right ascension
- 08 52 41.3
- Declination
- +33 ° 25 ′ 19 ″
- Redshift
- 411 ± 1 km/ s
- Distance
- 30.53 ± 0.91 Mly (9.36 ± 0.28 Mpc )
- Type
- SA(rs)b
- Size
- 122 kly (37.5 kpc )
- Apparent size v
- 9.3 ′ × 2.2 ′
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- active galactic nucleus
- Constellation
- Lynx
- Distance from Earth
- 10
- Image
- N2683s.jpg
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- Commons category
- NGC 2683
- catalog code
- [VDD93] 83
- time of discovery or invention
- 1788-02-05
- discoverer or inventor
- William Herschel
- apparent magnitude
- 9.603
- galaxy morphological type
- Sc
- right ascension
- 133.1722708
- declination
- 33.4218000
- radial velocity
- 338
- redshift
- 0.001368
- epoch
- J2000.0
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 2683 is a field spiral galaxy in the northern constellation of Lynx. It was nicknamed the "UFO Galaxy" by the Astronaut Memorial Planetarium and Observatory. It was discovered by the astronomer William Herschel on February 5, 1788.
It is viewed nearly edge-on from Earth's location in space and is located about 30 million light-years away, although previous estimates also give distances between 16 and 25 million light-years.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 2683” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.