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Page last updated Jul 24, 2011
WORKING: Add positions/physical data (per Steinicke)
NGC 2650 (= PGC 24817)
Discovered (Sep 20, 1802) by William Herschel
A 14th-magnitude barred spiral galaxy (type SB(rs)b) in Ursa Major (RA 08 49 58, Dec +70 17 58)
Based on recessional velocity of 3825 km/sec, about 170 million light years away. Given that and apparent size of 1.6 by 1.2 arcmins, about 80 thousand light years in diameter. |
 Above, a 2.4 arcmin wide closeup of NGC 2650 Below, a 12 arcmin wide region centered on the galaxy

NGC 2651
Discovered (Mar 10, 1864) by Albert Marth (133)
NGC 2652 (= NGC 2974)
Discovered (Jan 6, 1785) by William Herschel (and later listed as NGC 2974)
Discovered (1886) by Ormond Stone (II-406) (and later listed as NGC 2652)
The first IC notes "Not found by Spitaler".
NGC 2653
Discovered (Aug 18, 1882) by Wilhelm Tempel (VI-7)
NGC 2654
Discovered (Aug 18, 1882) by Wilhelm Tempel (VI-6)
NGC 2655
Discovered (Sep 26, 1802) by William Herschel
NGC 2656
Discovered (Sep 10, 1831) by John Herschel
NGC 2657
Discovered (Mar 7, 1885) by Édouard Stephan (13-43)
NGC 2658
Discovered (May 28, 1826) by James Dunlop (609)
NGC 2659
Discovered (Feb 3, 1835) by John Herschel
NGC 2660
Discovered (Dec 29, 1834) by John Herschel
NGC 2661
Discovered (Mar 19, 1784) by William Herschel
NGC 2662
Discovered (Mar 16, 1836) by John Herschel
The second IC lists a corrected NPD (per Howe) of 104 36.8
NGC 2663
Discovered (Feb 8, 1886) by Lewis Swift (3-40)
NGC 2664
Discovered (Mar 20, 1830) by John Herschel
NGC 2665
Discovered (1886) by Frank Muller (II-407)
NGC 2666
Discovered (Mar 19, 1828) by John Herschel
NGC 2667 ((and with NGC 2667A?) = IC 2410)
Discovered (Feb 18, 1862) by Heinrich d'Arrest (and later listed as NGC 2667)
Discovered (Jan 13, 1901) by Max Wolf (and later listed as IC 2410)
NGC 2667 and 2667A are not close enough to be considered a single object (such as a pair of interacting galaxies; so the identity with IC 2410 presumably means not that it is equal to both of them, but that there is sufficient uncertainty in which of the three objects is which that either of the two galaxies in question might be the "equivalent" one. This problem will be resolved during a later iteration of this page, but if you would like a clarification as soon as possible, contact me and I'll do what I can to resolve things on a more timely basis. |
NGC 2667A
(For now, just a placeholder)
NGC 2668
Discovered (Feb 7, 1877) by Édouard Stephan (9-17)
NGC 2669
Discovered (Apr 11, 1834) by John Herschel
NGC 2670
Discovered (Feb 18, 1836) by John Herschel
NGC 2671
Discovered (May 1, 1826) by James Dunlop (489)
NGC 2672
Discovered (Mar 14, 1784) by William Herschel
NGC 2673
Discovered (Dec 19, 1849) by George Stoney
NGC 2674
Discovered (1886) by Ormond Stone (I-152)
The second IC adds "Not found by Howe (2 nights)".
NGC 2675
Discovered (Dec 2, 1861) by Heinrich d'Arrest
NGC 2676
Discovered (Nov 24, 1886) by Lewis Swift (6-33)
NGC 2677
Discovered (Mar 17, 1831) by John Herschel
NGC 2678
Discovered (Mar 15, 1784) by William Herschel
NGC 2679
Discovered (Mar 13, 1785) by William Herschel
NGC 2680
Discovered (Feb 26, 1851) by Bindon Stoney
NGC 2681
Discovered (Mar 17, 1790) by William Herschel
NGC 2682 (= M67) Discovered (1779) by Johann Koehler Recorded (April 6, 1780) by Charles Messier
A 7th-magnitude open cluster in Cancer (RA 08 51 18, Dec +11 49 00) (Image Credit: AURA/NSF/NOAO)

NGC 2683 (= PGC 24930)
Discovered (Feb 5, 1788) by William Herschel A 10th-magnitude spiral galaxy (type SA(rs)b) in Lynx (RA 08 52 41, Dec +33 25 12)NGC 2683's recessional velocity of 410 km/sec is too small to yield a reliable estimate of distance, as its peculiar (non-Hubble-expansion) velocity could be a significant part of its overall motion. Ignoring that caveat, its redshift implies a distance of 18 million light years, in reasonable agreement with redshift-independent distance estimates of 18 to 45 million light years. Given its 9.3 by 2.2 arcmin apparent size, the galaxy is about 50 thousand light years across if at the closer distance, and over 100 thousand light years across if the more distant estimate is closer to being correct. (The galaxy's impressive appearance and well-organized structure suggests that the larger size and distance are more likely, but appearances are often misleading.) A study of irregularities in the velocity distribution of stars in the central region suggests that like our own galaxy, NGC 2683 has a barred structure; but because of the galaxy's nearly edge-on presentation, it is impossible to tell that from the images shown here. The HST closeup (third below) shows the relatively bright core (the reason it is classified as a Seyfert (type Sy2) galaxy), extensive dust clouds outlined by the light of stars scattered throughout its disk, and numerous clusters of hot young blue stars scattered along the spiral arms which are mostly shrouded by the clouds of gas and dust lying in the plane of its galactic equator. |
 Above, an 8 arcmin wide SDSS view of the entire galaxy, with north at the top Below, a more nearly true-color image (Image Credits: Doug Matthews/Adam Block/AURA/NSF/NOAO)
 Below, a HST image (Credits: Data: Hubble Legacy Archive, ESA, NASA; Processing: Nikolaus Sulzenauer; apod)
 Below, a 12 arcmin wide region centered on the galaxy Also shown in the wide-field view are PGC 24945, 2030408 and 2032797 (see PGC Objects) See immediately below for a discussion of the object labeled as 0853+3321

2MASXJ08524947+3321216 (= "0853+3321", above)
A 17th-(B)magnitude galaxy (type ?) in Lynx (RA 08 52 49, Dec +33 21 22)This catalog mostly ignores galaxies which do not have an NGC, IC or PGC entry; but in searching for such an identification of 2MASXJ08524947+3321216, information was obtained which seems of adequate interest to justify an entry, despite its not being included in any of those catalogs. Given its recessional velocity of 33600 km/sec, a straightforward calculation indicates that 2MASXJ08524947+3321216 is about 1.5 billion light years away. However, for such distant objects, we must take into account the expansion of the Universe during the billion and a half years it took the light by which we see the object to reach us. Doing that indicates that we see the galaxy when it was about 1.375 billion light years away, and that it took the light it emitted at that time about 1.45 billion years to reach us (the difference between the two numbers being due to the expansion of the space through which the light passed on its way here). Given that and the galaxy's apparent size of about 0.25 by 0.2 arcmin, it is about 100 thousand light years across. In other words, this faint speck is about what our galaxy would look like if seen by the inhabitants of worlds in that distant object. |
 Above, a 2.4 arcmin wide region centered on the galaxy; for a wide-field view, see NGC 2683
NGC 2684
Discovered (Mar 9, 1788) by William Herschel
NGC 2685 = the Helix Galaxy
Discovered (Aug 18, 1882) by Wilhelm Tempel (VI-8)
 Above, a closeup of NGC 2685 (Image Credits: N. A. Sharp/AURA/NSF/NOAO)
NGC 2686
Discovered (Mar 11, 1858) by R. J. Mitchell
NGC 2687
Discovered (Mar 11, 1858) by R. J. Mitchell
NGC 2688
Discovered (Mar 11, 1858) by R. J. Mitchell
NGC 2689
Discovered (Mar 11, 1858) by R. J. Mitchell
NGC 2690
Discovered (Mar 10, 1886) by Lewis Swift (3-41)
The second IC lists a corrected RA (per Howe) of 08 45 34
NGC 2691
Discovered (Mar 20, 1787) by William Herschel
NGC 2692
Discovered (Mar 17, 1790) by William Herschel
NGC 2693
Discovered (Mar 17, 1790) by William Herschel
NGC 2694
Discovered (Mar 9, 1850) by George Stoney
NGC 2695
Discovered (Jan 6, 1785) by William Herschel
NGC 2696
Discovered (1886) by Ormond Stone (I-153)
NGC 2697
Discovered (Jan 24, 1851) by Bindon Stoney
NGC 2698
Discovered (Mar 11, 1826) by John Herschel
NGC 2699
Discovered (Jan 4, 1862) by Heinrich d'Arrest
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