Meathook Galaxy

Two sharply bent arms give this asymmetric spiral its hooked silhouette.

Also known as NGC 2442, NGC 2443, Meathook.

Catalog Position basis, the same label the app shows on the selection card.

Every aspect, with its origin

One record per aspect. The origin says what kind of thing each value is; the source says where it came from; the limit says what it cannot tell you.

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Position Catalog

Registered image field

J2000 image-field center RA 7.6 h, Dec -69.5°. Field 9.1 × 9.5 arcminutes; north 180° right of vertical.

SourceMPG/ESO 2.2-metre / WFI

EpochJ2000

LimitThe image field center is not necessarily a galaxy nucleus.

Physical data Catalog

Adopted distance

Approximately 55,000,000 light-years.

SourcePublished distance context

LimitAn approximate reference distance; distances to individual points within the image are not supplied by the observation.

Appearance Reconstructed

Observation-derived appearance

The navigable crop isolates NGC 2442 from the wide ground-based field. The full source includes surrounding stars and unrelated galaxies. Projected structure follows the credited observation at its published angular scale and an approximate adopted distance. Shallow depth is illustrative, not measured tomography. The source palette is preserved; brightness is adjusted for the navigable view.

SourceESO (European Southern Observatory)

What is not measured

Appearance: a reconstruction from measurements, not a direct observation. Observation-derived appearance. The navigable crop isolates NGC 2442 from the wide ground-based field. The full source includes surrounding stars and unrelated galaxies. Projected structure follows the credited observation at its published angular scale and an approximate adopted distance. Shallow depth is illustrative, not measured tomography. The source palette is preserved; brightness is adjusted for the navigable view.

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