Menu

NGC 2938 — Galaxy in Draco

Galaxy Fair (34/100)

Spiral

Magnitude 14.0m Galaxy Draco (Dra) Visible
Star Map
+ List + Plan Star Hop

Observe

1Properties

Magnitude 14.0
Angular Size 1.2′ × 0.8′
Position Angle 97°
Distance 106.29 million ly
Galaxy Type Spiral (Sc)
eF, S, iF, D* f 3'

Position & Identifiers

RA 09h 38m 18.0s
Dec +76° 19' 00.0"
Constellation Draco (Dra)
Catalog NGC 2938

2How easy to spot?

Sign in and configure your equipment and default location to see a personalized row.
Telescope Bortle 3 Bortle 4 Bortle 5
80mm refr. Imp. Imp. Imp.
150mm Newt. Imp. Imp. Imp.
C8 203mm Imp. Imp. Imp.
Easy Medium Hard Very hard Impossible

Bortle 3 = rural · 4 = outer suburbs · 5 = suburbs

Out of reach for typical amateur telescopes, even at Bortle 3.
Medium on Seestar S50

3Visibility

Set a location in User Settings to see visibility data.

Best season Jan – Mar (peak: Feb)

4 Eyepiece View

Log in to set your own equipment
125x TFOV: 0.4° Lim. mag: 13.6
N E

NGC 2938 · 1.2′×0.8′ · N up, E left

5 Best Magnification

Explore

6 Surface Brightness

7 Morphology Decoder

8 Inclination & True Shape

9 Redshift

10 Size Comparator

Discover

11

Light Travel Time Machine

12

Relativistic Travel

Nearby in the Sky

Other targets within a few degrees — pan your scope a little and keep exploring.

Visibility scores assume a 150 mm Newton at Bortle 4.

NGC 2655
Easy
Bright spiral galaxy
Galaxy mag 10.1 3.0° Camelopardalis
NGC 2732
Medium
Bright spiral galaxy
Galaxy mag 11.9 3.2° Camelopardalis
NGC 3147
Medium+
Barred spiral galaxy
Galaxy mag 10.7 3.8° Draco
NGC 2633
Medium
Barred spiral galaxy
Galaxy mag 11.9 3.9° Camelopardalis
Sigma UMa
HIP 45038; Sigma2 Ursae Majoris; 13 Ursae Majoris
Medium+
Colorful double, sep 4.7″
Double Star mag 4.80 9.4° Ursa Major
Show on Map

Explore Nightbase

Related knowledge, tools, and stories — no observation planning required.

William Parsons
Built the Leviathan of Parsonstown; first to resolve spiral structure of nebulae
Biography
Galaxies and the Interstellar Medium
The Hubble tuning fork, Tully-Fisher distances, metallicity, Wolf-Rayet stars, HII regions, interstellar dust, the 21-cm hydrogen line, and the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect — the working toolkit astronomers use to read galaxies and the stuff between their stars.
Article
Draco
Mythology, bright stars, and deep-sky highlights.
Constellation
}