NGC 3202
| Galaxy NGC 3202 |
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| SDSS recording | |
| AladinLite | |
| Constellation | Big Bear |
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Position equinox : J2000.0 , epoch : J2000.0 |
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| Right ascension | 10 h 20 m 31.7 s |
| declination | + 43 ° 01 ′ 18 ″ |
| Appearance | |
| Morphological type | SB (r) a / LINER |
| Brightness (visual) | 13.2 mag |
| Brightness (B-band) | 14.1 mag |
| Angular expansion | 1.2 ′ × 0.8 ′ |
| Position angle | 20 ° |
| Surface brightness | 13.0 mag / arcmin² |
| Physical data | |
| Affiliation | WBL 264-001 |
| Redshift | 0.022399 ± 0.000130 |
| Radial velocity | 6715 ± 39 km / s |
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Stroke distance v rad / H 0 |
(300 ± 21) · 10 6 ly (92.1 ± 6.5) Mpc |
| history | |
| discovery | William Herschel |
| Discovery date | February 3, 1788 |
| Catalog names | |
| NGC 3202 • UGC 5581 • PGC 30236 • CGCG 211-044 • MCG + 07-21-041 • 2MASX J10203177 + 4301179 • GC 2069 • H II 720 • h 696 • LDCE 722 NED001 | |
NGC 3202 is a bar-spiral galaxy with an active galaxy core of the Hubble-type SBa in the constellation Great Bear in the northern sky . It is estimated to be 300 million light years away from the Milky Way and has a diameter of around 70,000 ly.
In the same area of the sky are the galaxies NGC 3205 and NGC 3207 .
The object was discovered by Wilhelm Herschel on February 3, 1788 .