NGC 3067
| Galaxy NGC 3067 |
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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 | 09 h 58 m 21.1 s |
| declination | + 32 ° 22 ′ 12 ″ |
| Appearance | |
| Morphological type | SAB (s) from? / HII |
| Brightness (visual) | 12.0 mag |
| Brightness (B-band) | 12.8 mag |
| Angular expansion | 2.40 ′ × 0.9 ′ |
| Position angle | 105 ° |
| Surface brightness | 12.7 mag / arcmin² |
| Physical data | |
| Affiliation | Leo cluster of galaxies |
| Redshift | 0.004923 ± 0.000013 |
| Radial velocity | 1476 ± 4 km / s |
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Stroke distance v rad / H 0 |
(64 ± 5) x 10 6 ly (19.7 ± 1.4) Mpc |
| history | |
| discovery | William Herschel |
| Discovery date | December 7, 1785 |
| Catalog names | |
| NGC 3067 • UGC 5351 • PGC 28805 • CGCG 182-051 • MCG + 06-22-046 • IRAS 09554 + 3236 • KUG 0955 + 326 • 2MASX J09582105 + 3222119 • GC 1973 • H II 492 • h 657 • NSA 85746 • LDCE 676 NED005 • KTG 26C | |
NGC 3067 is a bar-spiral galaxy with extensive star formation regions of the Hubble type SBab in the constellation Leo in the northern sky . It is estimated to be 64 million light years from the Milky Way and about 45,000 light years in diameter. Together with NGC 3003 and NGC 3021 , the isolated galaxy trio KTG 26 is formed .
In the same area of the sky is u. a. the galaxy NGC 3071 .
The object was discovered by William Herschel on December 7, 1785 .