Table 1: Galaxy parameters.
  IC 342 Maffei 2
Typea SABcd SABbc
Optical Centre:    
RA (B1950)b 03$^{\rm h}$41$^{\rm m}$58.6$^{\rm s}$ 02$^{\rm h}$38$^{\rm m}$08.0$^{\rm s}$
Dec (B1950)b +67$^{\circ }$56'26'' +59$^{\circ }$23'24''
RA (J2000) 03$^{\rm h}$46$^{\rm m}$49.7$^{\rm s}$ 02$^{\rm h}$41$^{\rm m}$54.6$^{\rm s}$
Dec (J2000) +68$^{\circ }$05'45'' +59$^{\circ }$36'11''
Radio Centre:    
RA (B1950)c 03$^{\rm h}$41$^{\rm m}$57.3$^{\rm s}$ 02$^{\rm h}$38$^{\rm m}$08.4$^{\rm s}$
Dec (B1950)c +67$^{\circ }$56'27'' +59$^{\circ }$23'30''
$V_{\rm LSR}^{c,d}$ +35 ${\rm {km~s^{-1}}}$ -31 ${\rm {km~s^{-1}}}$
Inclination id 25$^{\circ }$ 67$^{\circ }$
Position angle Pd 39$^{\circ }$ 26$^{\circ }$
Distance De 1.8 Mpc 2.7 Mpc
Luminosity $L_{\rm B}^{f}$ 2 $\times 10^{10}$ $L_{\rm B\odot}$ 1 $\times 10^{10}$ $L_{\rm B\odot}$
Scale 115 ''/kpc 77 ''/kpc
Notes to Table 1:
a RSA (Sandage & Tammann 1987);
b Dressel & Condon (1976);
c Hummel & Gräve (1990); Turner & Ho (1994);
d Rots (1979); Newton (1980); Hurt et al. (1996);
e McCall (1989) for IC 342; for Maffei 2 see text;
f Buta & McCall (1999), assuming Galactic foreground for IC 342 $A_{\rm B}= 3.32$ mag (Madore & Freedman 1992);
for Maffei 2 an uncertain foreground $A_{\rm B} = 8$ mag is assumed.

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