Cosmic Atlas object record
NGC 2942
NGC2942, NGC 2942
- Object type
- galaxy
- Constellation
- LMi
- Right ascension
- 144.78316667°
- Declination
- 34.00633333°
- Reference frame
- J2000 equatorial catalog coordinates
- Distance
- 205615735.7591602 ly
- Distance kind
- Not supplied by the source catalog
- Uncertainty
- Not supplied by the source catalog
- Apparent magnitude
- 12.89
- Catalog source
- openngc_ngc_ic_catalog
- Catalog epoch
- J2000 catalog coordinates
- Position epoch
- J2000
- Selection caveat
- OpenNGC Pax is not treated as parallax for galaxies. Galactic classes never use Hubble-flow redshift or radial-velocity distance, and radial velocity alone is never converted to distance.
- Cosmology
- Not supplied by the source catalog