Given below is a table of radial velocities for the Messier galaxies, taken

from

Nasa’s Extragalactic Database (NED).

Note that some of the galaxies from either the

Local Group or the

Virgo Cluster have negative radial

velocities (blueshifts instead of redshifts).

Galaxy/NGC   RA          Dec        RV_hel      RV_gal



 M31    224  00:42:44.3  +41:16:09  -300 +/- 4  -122

 M32    221  00:42:41.8  +40:51:52  -205 +/- 8  - 28

 M33    598  01:33:50.9  +30:39:37  -179 +/- 3  - 44

 M49   4472  12:29:46.8  +08:00:02   868 +/- 8   800

 M51   5194  13:29:52.3  +47:11:54   463 +/- 3   551

 M58   4579  12:37:43.5  +11:49:05  1519 +/- 6  1468

 M59   4621  12:42:02.5  +11:38:49   424 +/-12   375

 M60   4649  12:43:39.6  +11:33:09  1413 +/-10  1364

 M61   4303  12:21:54.9  +04:28:25  1566 +/- 2  1483

 M63   5055  13:15:49.2  +42:01:49   504 +/- 4   570

 M64   4826  12:56:44.2  +21:41:05   408 +/- 4   400

 M65   3623  11:18:55.2  +13:05:35   807 +/- 3   723

 M66   3627  11:20:15.0  +12:59:30   727 +/- 3   643

 M74    628  01:36:41.7  +15:46:59   657 +/- 1   755

 M77   1068  02:42:40.7  -00:00:48  1136 +/- 4  1145

 M81   3031  09:55:33.2  +69:03:55  - 34 +/- 4    73

 M82   3034  09:55:52.2  +69:40:47   203 +/- 4   312

 M83   5236  13:37:00.8  -29:51:59   516 +/- 4   385

 M84   4374  12:25:03.6  +12:53:14  1000 +/- 8   946

 M85   4382  12:25:24.2  +18:11:23   760 +/-12   723

 M86   4406  12:26:11.7  +12:56:46  -227 +/- 8  -281

 M87   4486  12:30:49.4  +12:23:28  1282 +/- 9  1229

 M88   4501  12:31:59.0  +14:25:10  2281 +/- 3  2235

 M89   4552  12:35:39.9  +12:33:25   321 +/-12   271

 M90   4569  12:36:49.8  +13:09:46  -235 +/- 4  -282

 M91   4548  12:35:26.3  +14:29:49   486 +/- 4   442

 M94   4736  12:50:53.0  +41:07:14   308 +/- 1   360

 M95   3351  10:43:58.0  +11:42:14   778 +/- 4   677

 M96   3368  10:46:45.6  +11:49:18   897 +/- 4   797

 M98   4192  12:13:48.3  +14:54:01  -142 +/- 4  -195

 M99   4254  12:18:49.4  +14:24:59  2407 +/- 3  2354

M100   4321  12:22:54.8  +15:49:20  1571 +/- 1  1525

M101   5457  14:03:12.5  +54:20:55   241 +/- 2   360

M102?  5866  15:06:29.4  +55:45:49   672 +/- 9   818

M104   4594  12:39:58.8  -11:37:28  1091 +/- 5   971

M105   3379  10:47:49.5  +12:34:57   920 +/-10   823

M106   4258  12:18:57.5  +47:18:14   448 +/- 3   508

M108   3556  11:08:36.8  +55:56:33   695 +/- 3   765

M109   3992  11:55:00.9  +53:39:11  1048 +/- 4  1121

M110    205  00:37:38.2  +41:24:58  -241 +/- 3  - 61

Key:

Galaxy:

Identification of Galaxy

RA, Dec:

Right Ascension (in hours:minutes:seconds) and

Declination (in degrees:minutes:seconds) for epoch J 2000.0

RV_hel, RV_gal:

Radial velocity in km/sec, heliocentric and wrt the Galactic Standard

of Rest (i.e., a position at rest wrt the Galactic Center)

Hartmut Frommert

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Christine Kronberg

([email protected])

Last Modification: 2 May 1998, 15:00 MET