NGC 3047

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Galaxy
NGC 3047
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SDSS image from NGC 3047 & PGC 28572
SDSS image of NGC 3047 & PGC 28572
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Constellation sextant
Position
equinoxJ2000.0 , epoch : J2000.0
Right ascension 09 h 48 m 54.0 s
declination -01 ° 17 ′ 27 ″
Appearance
Morphological type S0 (rs) a / HII  
Brightness  (visual) 14.1 mag
Brightness  (B-band) 15.0 mag
Angular expansion 0.4 ′ × 0.4 ′
Surface brightness 12.0 mag / arcmin²
Physical data
Redshift 0.020531 ± 0.000097  
Radial velocity (6155 ± 29) km / s  
Stroke distance
v rad  / H 0
(268 ± 19)  ·  10 6  ly
(82.2 ± 5.8)  Mpc 
history
discovery George W. Hough & Sherburne Burnham
Discovery date April 24, 1883
Catalog names
NGC  3047 • UGC  5323 • PGC  28577 • CGCG  007-059 • MCG  + 00-25-033 • 2MASX  J09485401-0803032 • LDCE 0678 NED005

NGC 3047 is a lenticular galaxy of the Hubble type S0 in the constellation Sextant in the southern sky . It is estimated to be 268 million light years from the Milky Way .

The object was discovered on April 24, 1883 by George Washington Hough and Sherburne Burnham .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. a b c d NASA / IPAC EXTRAGALACTIC DATABASE
  2. a b c d e SEDS : NGC 3047
  3. Seligman