NGC 3118
| Galaxy NGC 3118 |
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| SDSS | |
| AladinLite | |
| Constellation | Little lion |
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Position equinox : J2000.0 , epoch : J2000.0 |
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| Right ascension | 10 h 07 m 11.5 s |
| declination | + 33 ° 01 ′ 39 ″ |
| Appearance | |
| Morphological type | Sbc |
| Brightness (visual) | 13.5 likes |
| Brightness (B-band) | 14.3 mag |
| Angular expansion | 2.5 ′ × 0.4 ′ |
| Position angle | 41 ° |
| Surface brightness | 13.4 mag / arcmin² |
| Physical data | |
| Redshift | 0.004476 ± 0.000004 |
| Radial velocity | 1342 ± 1 km / s |
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Stroke distance v rad / H 0 |
(59 ± 4) · 10 6 ly (18.0 ± 1.3) Mpc |
| history | |
| discovery | Édouard Stephan |
| Discovery date | March 16, 1884 |
| Catalog names | |
| NGC 3118 • UGC 5452 • PGC 29415 • CGCG 182-075 • MCG + 06-22-074 • IRAS 10042 + 3316 • KUG 1004 + 332 • 2MASX J10071161 + 3301403 • NSA 85977 • USGC U268 NED01 | |
NGC 3118 is a spiral galaxy of Hubble type Sbc in the constellation Leo Minor at the northern sky . It is estimated to be 59 million light-years away from the Milky Way and has a diameter of about 45,000 ly
. a. the galaxy IC 2544 .
The object was discovered on March 16, 1884 by Édouard Stephan .