NGC 3078

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Galaxy
NGC 3078
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Image taken by the Hubble Space Telescope of the galaxy NGC 3078
Image taken by the Hubble Space Telescope of the galaxy NGC 3078
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Constellation Water snake
Position
equinox :  J2000.0 , epoch : J2000.0
Right ascension 09 h 58 m 24.6 s
declination -26 ° 55 ′ 36 ″
Appearance
Morphological type E 2-3  
Brightness  (visual) 11.1 mag
Brightness  (B-band) 12.1 mag
Angular expansion 2.7 ′ × 2.3 ′
Position angle 177 °
Surface brightness 12.9 mag / arcmin²
Physical data
Affiliation LGG 185  
Redshift 0.008606 ± 0.000067  
Radial velocity 2580 ± 20 km / s  
Stroke distance
v rad  / H 0 		(106 ± 8)  ·  10 6  ly
(32.4 ± 2.3)  Mpc 
history
discovery William Herschel
Discovery date December 9, 1784
Catalog names
NGC  3078 • PGC  28806 • ESO  499-027 • MCG  -04-24-009 • 2MASX  J09582458-2655356 • SGC  95608-2641.2 • GC  3209 • H  II 268 • h  1981 • GALEX ASC J095824.75-265534.6 • LDCE 729 NED022

NGC 3078 is an elliptical galaxy of Hubble type E3 in the constellation Hydra south of the celestial equator . It is estimated to be 106 million light years from the Milky Way .

The brightness adjusted section of the Hubble image from NGC 3078, which shows the dust ring around the center.

Using images from the Hubble Space Telescope , the mass of the central black hole was estimated to be up to 300 million solar masses . In an enlarged section of this image, the dust disk around the center of the galaxy can be seen despite the great distance.

The galaxy is a member of the NGC 3054 group , which continues to include NGC 3051 , NGC 3054 , NGC 3084 , NGC 3089 , IC 2531 , IC 2537 , ESO 499-026, and PGC 28874 .

The object was discovered on December 9, 1784 by William Herschel with a 48 cm telescope.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e NASA / IPAC EXTRAGALACTIC DATABASE
  2. ↑ a b c d e f SEDS : NGC 3078
  3. ^ VizieR
  4. ↑ Beifiori, A .; Sarzi, M .; Corsini, EM; Dalla Bontà, E .; Pizzella, A .; Coccato, L .; Bertola, F .: Upper Limits on the Masses of 105 Supermassive Black Holes from Hubble Space Telescope / Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph Archival Data , bibcode : 2009ApJ ... 692..856B
  5. ↑ Seligman