Key facts
- Constellation
- Canis Major
- Right ascension
- 06 21 40.35
- Declination
- −27 ° 13 ′ 56.90 ″
- Heliocentric radial velocity
- 1619 km/s
- Distance
- 73 Mly 22.4 Mpc
- Type
- (R)SB0 (rs)
- Apparent size v
- 4.44 ′ × 4.84 ′
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- active galactic nucleus
- Constellation
- Canis Major
- Distance from Earth
- 26.17
- Image
- NGC 2217 ESO.jpg
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- catalog code
- Gaia DR2 2899383918742822784
- declination
- -27.23379343026630
- Commons category
- NGC 2217
- time of discovery or invention
- 1835-01-20
- discoverer or inventor
- John Frederick William Herschel
- redshift
- 0.005400
- apparent magnitude
- 7.093
- galaxy morphological type
- SBa
- epoch
- J2000.0
- right ascension
- 95.41562954857470
- radial velocity
- 1609
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 2217 is a galaxy of about 100 thousand light-years across that lies roughly 65 million light years from Earth in the constellation of Canis Major. It is part of the NGC 2217 Group of galaxies. It is classified as a barred spiral galaxy.
A notable feature is the swirling shape of this galaxy. In its very concentrated central region we can see a distinctive, very luminous bar of stars within an oval ring. Further out, a set of tightly wound spiral arms almost form a circular ring around the galaxy. The galaxy is not very known as of now.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Q921308” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.