NGC 3001

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Galaxy
NGC 3001
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Constellation Air pump
Position
equinoxJ2000.0 , epoch : J2000.0
Right ascension 09 h 46 m 18.6 s
declination -30 ° 26 ′ 15 ″
Appearance
Morphological type SAB (rs) bc / HII  
Brightness  (visual) 11.8 mag
Brightness  (B-band) 12.6 mag
Angular expansion 2.9 ′ × 2 ′
Position angle 6 °
Surface brightness 13.6 mag / arcmin²
Physical data
Redshift 0.008219 ± 0.000019  
Radial velocity 2464 ± 6 km / s  
Stroke distance
v rad  / H 0
(100 ± 7)  x  10 6  ly
(30.8 ± 2.2)  Mpc 
history
discovery John Herschel
Discovery date March 30, 1835
Catalog names
NGC  3001 • PGC  28027 • ESO  434-038 • MCG  -05-23-014 • 2MASX  J09461866-3026148 • SGC  094407-3012.4 • HIPASS J0946-30 • LDCE 729 NED006

NGC 3001 is a bar-spiral galaxy with extensive star formation regions of the Hubble type SBbc in the constellation Air Pump in the southern sky . It is estimated to be 100 million light years away from the Milky Way and has a diameter of about 90,000 ly.
In the same area of ​​the sky there is a. a. the galaxy NGC 2997 .

The Type Ia supernova SN 2010hg was observed here.

The object was discovered on March 30, 1835 by the astronomer John Herschel .

Web links

Commons : NGC 3001  - collection of images, videos, and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. a b c d NASA / IPAC EXTRAGALACTIC DATABASE
  2. a b c d e f SEDS : NGC 3001
  3. Simbad
  4. Seligman