Cosmic Atlas object record
NGC 2287
NGC2287, NGC 2287, M041, Messier 041
- Object type
- star_cluster
- Constellation
- CMa
- Right ascension
- 101.49975°
- Declination
- -20.75422222°
- Reference frame
- J2000 equatorial catalog coordinates
- Distance
- 2398.208659691529 ly
- Distance kind
- Not supplied by the source catalog
- Uncertainty
- Not supplied by the source catalog
- Apparent magnitude
- 4.5
- 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