NGC 3303
| Galaxy NGC 3303 |
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| SDSS recording | |
| AladinLite | |
| Constellation | lion |
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Position equinox : J2000.0 , epoch : J2000.0 |
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| Right ascension | 10 h 36 m 59.8 s |
| declination | + 18 ° 08 ′ 12 ″ |
| Appearance | |
| Morphological type | Sbc pec / LINER |
| Brightness (visual) | 13.5 likes |
| Brightness (B-band) | 14.3 mag |
| Angular expansion | 1.7 ′ × 1.3 ′ |
| Position angle | 165 ° |
| Surface brightness | 14.2 mag / arcmin² |
| Physical data | |
| Redshift | 0.020951 ± 0.000050 |
| Radial velocity | (6281 ± 15) km / s |
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Stroke distance v rad / H 0 |
(277 ± 19) x 10 6 ly (84.9 ± 5.9) Mpc |
| diameter | 140,000 ly |
| history | |
| discovery | William Herschel |
| Discovery date | March 21, 1784 |
| Catalog names | |
| NGC 3303 • UGC 5773 • PGC 31508 • CGCG 094-096 • MCG + 03-27-066 • 2MASX J10370009 + 1808088 • Arp 192 • VV 071 • GC 2153 • H III 66 • h 730 • | |
NGC 3303 is a spiral galaxy of Hubble type Sbc pec in the constellation Leo Minor at the northern sky . It is estimated that 277 million light-years from the Milky Way away and has a diameter of about 140,000 light years. The galaxy has an active galactic nucleus from LINER type. Halton Arp organized his catalog of unusual galaxies into groups according to purely morphological criteria. This galaxy belongs to the class of narrow filament galaxies .
The object was discovered by William Herschel on March 21, 1784 .
Web links
Commons : NGC 3303 - collection of images, videos, and audio files
literature
- Jeff Kanipe and Dennis Webb: The Arp Atlas of Peculiar Galaxies - A Chronicle and Observer's Guide , Richmond 2006, ISBN 978-0-943396-76-7