NGC 3070
| Galaxy NGC 3070 |
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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 06.9 s |
| declination | + 10 ° 21 ′ 35 ″ |
| Appearance | |
| Morphological type | E0 |
| Brightness (visual) | 12.2 mag |
| Brightness (B-band) | 13.2 mag |
| Angular expansion | 1.4 ′ × 1.4 ′ |
| Surface brightness | 13.0 mag / arcmin² |
| Physical data | |
| Redshift | 0.017906 ± 0.000057 |
| Radial velocity | 5368 ± 17 km / s |
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Stroke distance v rad / H 0 |
(235 ± 16) x 10 6 ly (71.9 ± 5.0) Mpc |
| history | |
| discovery | William Herschel |
| Discovery date | March 15, 1784 |
| Catalog names | |
| NGC 3070 • UGC 5350 • PGC 28796 • CGCG 064-011 • MCG + 02-26-006 • 2MASX J09580691 + 1021353 • GC 1975 • H II 59 • h 659 • GALEX ASC J095806.93 + 102134.6 • LDCE 691 NED002 | |
NGC 3070 is an elliptical galaxy from the Hubble type E0 in Leo on the ecliptic . It is estimated to be 235 million light years from the Milky Way and about 95,000 light years across.
In the same area of the sky are u. a. the galaxies NGC 3069 , IC 578 , IC 580 , IC 584 .
The object was discovered on March 15, 1784 by the German-British astronomer Wilhelm Herschel .
Web links
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