Redshift data for Messier Galaxies * Also available in html: http://www.seds.org/messier/xtra/supp/redshift.html Given below is a table of radial velocities for the Messier galaxies, taken from Nasa's Extragalactic Database (NED): http://ned.ipac.caltech.edu/ Note that some of the galaxies from either the Local Group or the Virgo Cluster have negative radial velocities (blueshifts instead of redshifts). We also give positions (RA, Dec) and distances of the galaxies in this table [Warning: don't try to derive Hubble's Law from these data :-) ]. Galaxy/NGC RA Dec Dist RV_hel RV_gal M31 224 00:42:44.3 +41:16:09 2.9 -300 +/- 4 -122 M32 221 00:42:41.8 +40:51:52 2.9 -205 +/- 8 - 28 M33 598 01:33:50.9 +30:39:37 3.0 -179 +/- 3 - 44 M49 4472 12:29:46.8 +08:00:02 60 868 +/- 8 800 M51 5194 13:29:52.3 +47:11:54 37 463 +/- 3 551 M58 4579 12:37:43.5 +11:49:05 60 1519 +/- 6 1468 M59 4621 12:42:02.5 +11:38:49 60 424 +/-12 375 M60 4649 12:43:39.6 +11:33:09 60 1413 +/-10 1364 M61 4303 12:21:54.9 +04:28:25 60 1566 +/- 2 1483 M63 5055 13:15:49.2 +42:01:49 37 504 +/- 4 570 M64 4826 12:56:44.2 +21:41:05 19 408 +/- 4 400 M65 3623 11:18:55.2 +13:05:35 35 807 +/- 3 723 M66 3627 11:20:15.0 +12:59:30 35 727 +/- 3 643 M74 628 01:36:41.7 +15:46:59 35 657 +/- 1 755 M77 1068 02:42:40.7 -00:00:48 60 1136 +/- 4 1145 M81 3031 09:55:33.2 +69:03:55 12 - 34 +/- 4 73 M82 3034 09:55:52.2 +69:40:47 12 203 +/- 4 312 M83 5236 13:37:00.8 -29:51:59 15 516 +/- 4 385 M84 4374 12:25:03.6 +12:53:14 60 1000 +/- 8 946 M85 4382 12:25:24.2 +18:11:23 60 760 +/-12 723 M86 4406 12:26:11.7 +12:56:46 60 -227 +/- 8 -281 M87 4486 12:30:49.4 +12:23:28 60 1282 +/- 9 1229 M88 4501 12:31:59.0 +14:25:10 60 2281 +/- 3 2235 M89 4552 12:35:39.9 +12:33:25 60 321 +/-12 271 M90 4569 12:36:49.8 +13:09:46 60 -235 +/- 4 -282 M91 4548 12:35:26.3 +14:29:49 60 486 +/- 4 442 M94 4736 12:50:53.0 +41:07:14 14.5 308 +/- 1 360 M95 3351 10:43:58.0 +11:42:14 38 778 +/- 4 677 M96 3368 10:46:45.6 +11:49:18 38 897 +/- 4 797 M98 4192 12:13:48.3 +14:54:01 60 -142 +/- 4 -195 M99 4254 12:18:49.4 +14:24:59 60 2407 +/- 3 2354 M100 4321 12:22:54.8 +15:49:20 60 1571 +/- 1 1525 M101 5457 14:03:12.5 +54:20:55 27 241 +/- 2 360 M102? 5866 15:06:29.4 +55:45:49 40 672 +/- 9 818 M104 4594 12:39:58.8 -11:37:28 50 1091 +/- 5 971 M105 3379 10:47:49.5 +12:34:57 38 920 +/-10 823 M106 4258 12:18:57.5 +47:18:14 25 448 +/- 3 508 M108 3556 11:08:36.8 +55:56:33 45 695 +/- 3 765 M109 3992 11:55:00.9 +53:39:11 55 1048 +/- 4 1121 M110 205 00:37:38.2 +41:24:58 2.9 -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 Dist: Distance in millions of light years (Mega light years, Mly) 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 Christine Kronberg