Overview
NGC 2685 is a lenticular and polar ring Seyfert Type 2 galaxy in the constellation Ursa Major. Its velocity with respect to the cosmic microwave background is 1003 ± 9 km/s, which corresponds to a Hubble distance of 48.2 ± 3.4 Mly (14.79 ± 1.05 Mpc). Additionally, eight non-redshift measurements give a distance of 42.56 ± 3.01 Mly (13.050 ± 0.924 Mpc). It was discovered by German astronomer Wilhelm Tempel on 18 August 1882.