NGC 3165
| Galaxy NGC 3165 |
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| NGC 3165 (small, bottom right) next to NCG 3166 (right) and NGC 3169 (left) recorded with the Wide Field Imager of the MPG / ESO 2.2-meter telescope in the La Silla Observatory . | |
| AladinLite | |
| Constellation | sextant |
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Position equinox : J2000.0 , epoch : J2000.0 |
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| Right ascension | 10 h 13 m 31.3 s |
| declination | + 03 ° 22 ′ 30 ″ |
| Appearance | |
| Morphological type | Sdm |
| Brightness (visual) | 13.9 likes |
| Brightness (B-band) | 14.5 mag |
| Angular expansion | 1.3 ′ × 0.7 ′ |
| Position angle | 177 ° |
| Surface brightness | 13.6 mag / arcmin² |
| Physical data | |
| Affiliation | LGG 192 |
| Redshift | 0.004470 +/- 0.000017 |
| Radial velocity | 1340 +/- 5 km / s |
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Stroke distance v rad / H 0 |
(54 ± 4) · 10 6 ly (16.5 ± 1.2) Mpc |
| history | |
| discovery | RJ Mitchell |
| Discovery date | January 30, 1856 |
| Catalog names | |
| NGC 3165 • UGC 5512 • PGC 29798 • CGCG 036-063 • MCG + 01-26-23 • HOLM 173C | |
NGC 3165 is a Hubble-type Sdm spiral galaxy in the constellation Sextant in the southern sky , an estimated 54 million light years away from the Milky Way .
It interacts with the galaxies NGC 3166 and NGC 3169 , as can be seen in the picture on the right.
The object was discovered by RJ Mitchell on January 30, 1856 .