Object Type | Galaxy SO |
Constellation | Ursa Major |
Magnitude | 10.2 |
Size | 3.6' x 3.3' |
Number 120 in the Herschel 400 list is NGC 2681. This is a large and bright face-on spiral galaxy in Ursa Major. In the telescope it appears almost perfectly circular with a bright core. looking just like an elliptical galaxy. However photographs clearly show a disc, meaning it is a spiral. Of the numerous faint background galaxies visible in the image, the brightest is the 17.1 magnitude, PGC 24936, visible to the upper right of NGC 2681.