NGC 2537, also known as the Bear Paw Galaxy, Bear Claw Galaxy, Arp 6, or Mrk 86, is a blue compact dwarf galaxy in the constellation Lynx, located around 3 degrees NNW of 31 Lyncis. [2] It was …

While looking through his 18.7 inch reflecting telescope William Herschel found on 6 February 1788 an object that he described as follows: «Pretty bright, round, almost of an even light throughout, …

NGC 2537 is a Barred Spiral Galaxy in the Lynx constellation. NGC 2537 is situated north of the celestial equator and, as such, it is more easily visible from the northern hemisphere.

Located in Lynx at an approximate distance of 25Mly, NGC 2537 was discovered by William Herschel using his 18.7" speculum mirrored telescope in 1788. Herschel himself described it as "approaching …

The Bear Paw Galaxy, NGC 2537 (Arp 6, Mrk 86) is a blue compact dwarf galaxy (type SBm) in the constellation Lynx. NGC2537 is located at a distance of about 26 million light years and has …

NGC2537 (Galaxy) R/B-band color composite image from the Second Digitized Sky Survey (DSS2), measuring 10 arcminutes across.

The galaxy was discovered in February 1788 by the german astronomer F.W. Herschel. With a diameter of just 1.7', NGC 2537 not only appears very small in the sky, with a true diameter of just 10,000 light …

Its diameter is about 20,000 light years, much smaller than our Milky Way's diameter of about 100,000 light years. As can be seen, it has irregular bright blue patches here and there, which are regions of …

NGC 2537, also known as the "Bear-Paw" galaxy, is a small but moderately bright galaxy in Lynx. It is readily visible as a spherical nebulous patch in an 8" telescope.

NGC 2537 is a interacting galaxy that has a distance from Earth of 39,582,338.00 light years. It can be found in the constellation of Lynx.