NGC 3126
| Galaxy NGC 3126 |
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| SDSS recording | |
| AladinLite | |
| Constellation | Little lion |
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Position equinox : J2000.0 , epoch : J2000.0 |
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| Right ascension | 10 h 08 m 20.6 s |
| declination | + 31 ° 51 ′ 46 ″ |
| Appearance | |
| Morphological type | Sb / AGN? |
| Brightness (visual) | 12.7 mag |
| Brightness (B-band) | 13.5 likes |
| Angular expansion | 2.8 ′ × 0.6 ′ |
| Position angle | 123 ° |
| Surface brightness | 13.1 mag / arcmin² |
| Physical data | |
| Redshift | 0.017275 ± 0.000023 |
| Radial velocity | (5179 ± 7) km / s |
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Stroke distance v rad / H 0 |
(230 ± 16) x 10 6 ly (70.5 ± 4.9) Mpc |
| history | |
| discovery | Heinrich d'Arrest |
| Discovery date | April 30, 1864 |
| Catalog names | |
| NGC 3126 • UGC 5466 • PGC 29484 • CGCG 153-023 • MCG + 05-24-019 • 2MASX J10082065 + 3151457 • | |
NGC 3126 is a spiral galaxy of Hubble type Sb in the constellation Leo Minor at the northern sky . It is around 230 million light years away from the Milky Way .
The object was discovered by Heinrich d'Arrest on April 30, 1864 .
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