NGC2466 is an unbarred spiral galaxy in the constellation of Volans. Its velocity with respect to the cosmic microwave background is 5428 ± 10km/s, which corresponds to a Hubble distance of . The galaxy was discovered by British astronomer John Herschel on 20 February 1835.
Supernovae Three supernovae have been observed in NGC2466: South African amateur astronomer discovered SN2003gh (TypeIa, mag.15.7) on 29 June 2003. ASASSN-14dd (TypeIbn, mag.15.6) was discovered by the All Sky Automated Survey for SuperNovae on 24 June 2014. SN2016iye (TypeIIb, mag.17.4) was discovered by Stuart Parker on 19 December 2016.
See also List of NGC objects (2001–3000)
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