NGC 2336 — Sbc in Camelopardalis
Sbc in Camelopardalis, 5.0 arcminutes across, its light 106 million years old. Measured by HyperLEDA, photographed by Pan-STARRS1. Recorded once.
About NGC 2336
What you are looking at
NGC 2336 is a spiral of the same broad class astronomers give the Milky Way: a moderate bulge and clearly drawn arms. It is tilted about 58° to our line of sight, enough to show both the shape of its arms and the depth of its disc. From edge to edge its visible disc spans about 153,000 light-years, about 1.6 times the width of the Milky Way.
What astronomers have recorded
SIMBAD, the reference database astronomers use, classes it as one of a pair of galaxies. One supernova has been recorded in it: SN 1987L. It is cited in 252 scientific papers indexed by SIMBAD, and recorded there under 18 different catalogue designations.
When this light set out
The light that reaches us from NGC 2336 today set out about 106 million years ago, when the first flowering plants had appeared. The galaxy is moving away from us at about 2,202 km/s (4.9 million mph), carried by the expansion of the universe.
Finding it in the sky
In the sky, NGC 2336 sits within the constellation Camelopardalis. From most of the United States it never sets: it circles the north celestial pole all year, and stands highest on winter evenings, around February.
Its neighbours
At almost the same distance from us, and so its neighbours in space as well as on the sky: IC 467 (0.3° away on the sky, at least 620,000 light-years from it); UGC 4066 (2.6° away on the sky, at least 4,710,000 light-years from it); UGC 3540 (2.6° away on the sky, at least 4,770,000 light-years from it); UGC 4151 (2.9° away on the sky, at least 5,410,000 light-years from it).
By apparent size it is number 125 of the 12,657 galaxies on the Galaxy Origins register.
Measurements
| Catalogue | PGC 21033 |
|---|---|
| Morphological type | Sbc |
| Angular diameter | 5.01′ |
| Right ascension | 07h27m04.1s |
| Declination | +80°10′41.0″ |
| Constellation | Camelopardalis |
| Inclination | 58.3° |
| Light travel time | 106 million years |
| Bar | yes, from the catalogue |
Check every figure above in the NASA/IPAC Extragalactic Database
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At 5.0 arcminutes this is a Exceptional galaxy, which is the tier where a real photograph shows clear structure and dust lanes. The tier comes from the measured diameter, not from a price list.
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