Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Camelopardalis (Cam)  ·  Contains:  NGC 2403
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NGC2403, astroyyc
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Located in the constellation Camelopardalis, this intermediate spiral galaxy is roughly 8 million light-years away from Earth and is considered to be a look-alike to the Triangulum Galaxy, although much less grand at 98,000 light-years in diameter and not face on at 22 degrees inclination to its edge.

Historically, NGC 2403 has played an important role in determining the cosmological distance scale; in the 1960s, Allan Sandage, the great American astronomer who is credited with the first reasonably accurate determination of the Hubble Constant and discovered the first quasar, detected the first Cepheid variable stars in a galaxy beyond the Local Group, when he trained the 200-inch Hale Telescope at the Palomar Observatory, in California, on NGC 2403. (Source: Astronomy Now)

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