NGC 3509
| Galaxy NGC 3509 |
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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 | 11 h 04 m 23.5 s |
| declination | + 04 ° 49 ′ 43 ″ |
| Appearance | |
| Morphological type | SA (s) bc pec |
| Brightness (visual) | 13.0 likes |
| Brightness (B-band) | 13.8 mag |
| Angular expansion | 2.1 ′ × 1 ′ |
| Position angle | 40 ° |
| Surface brightness | 13.7 mag / arcmin² |
| Physical data | |
| Redshift | 0.025698 ± 0.000023 |
| Radial velocity | (7704 ± 7) km / s |
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Stroke distance v rad / H 0 |
(339 ± 24) x 10 6 ly (103.9 ± 7.3) Mpc |
| history | |
| discovery | William Herschel |
| Discovery date | December 30, 1786 |
| Catalog names | |
| NGC 3509 • UGC 6134 • PGC 33446 • CGCG 038-109 • MCG + 01-28-033 • IRAS 11018 + 0505 • 2MASX J11042356 + 0449428 • Arp 335 • VV 75 • GC 2292 • H III 598 • KCPG 265A • LDCE 0775 NED002 | |
NGC 3509 = Arp 335 is a spiral galaxy of the Hubble type SA (s) bc in the constellation Leo on the ecliptic . It is an estimated 339 million light years from the Milky Way and about 215,000 light years in diameter . Halton Arp organized his catalog of unusual galaxies into groups according to purely morphological criteria. This galaxy belongs to the class Various (Arp catalog) .
The object was discovered on December 30, 1786 by the astronomer William Herschel with his 18.7- inch telescope.
Detailed imaging of areas of NGC 3509 using the Hubble Space Telescope
Web links
Commons : NGC 3509 - 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