NGC 3107

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Galaxy
NGC 3107
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SDSS recording
SDSS recording
AladinLite
Constellation lion
Position
equinoxJ2000.0 , epoch : J2000.0
Right ascension 10 h 04 m 22.5 s
declination + 13 ° 37 ′ 17 ″
Appearance
Morphological type Sbc  
Brightness  (visual) 13.0 likes
Brightness  (B-band) 13.8 mag
Angular expansion 0.7 ′ × 0.6 ′
Position angle 140 °
Surface brightness 11.9 mag / arcmin²
Physical data
Redshift 0.009390 ± 0.000007  
Radial velocity (2815 ± 2) km / s  
Stroke distance
v rad  / H 0
(121 ± 8)  ·  10 6  ly
(37.1 ± 2.6)  Mpc 
history
discovery Wilhelm Herschel
Discovery date March 22, 1794
Catalog names
NGC  3107 • UGC  5425 • PGC  29209 • CGCG  064-048 • MCG  + 02-26-022 • IRAS  10016 + 1351 • 2MASX  J10042247 + 1337167 • GC  2004 • H  II 898 •

NGC 3107 is a spiral galaxy of Hubble type Sbc in the constellation Leo the northern sky . It is around 121 million light years away from the Milky Way .

The object was discovered by Wilhelm Herschel on March 22, 1794 .

Web links

Commons : NGC 3107  - collection of images, videos, and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. a b c d NASA / IPAC EXTRAGALACTIC DATABASE
  2. a b c d e SEDS : NGC 3107
  3. Seligman