NGC 3208
| Galaxy NGC 3208 |
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| AladinLite | |
| Constellation | Water snake |
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Position equinox : J2000.0 , epoch : J2000.0 |
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| Right ascension | 10 h 19 m 41.3 s |
| declination | -25 ° 48 ′ 53 ″ |
| Appearance | |
| Morphological type | SAB (rs) bc / HII |
| Brightness (visual) | 12.7 mag |
| Brightness (B-band) | 13.4 mag |
| Angular expansion | 1.8 ′ × 1.6 ′ |
| Position angle | 20 ° |
| Surface brightness | 13.7 mag / arcmin² |
| Physical data | |
| Redshift | 0.009660 ± 0.000017 |
| Radial velocity | (2896 ± 5) km / s |
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Stroke distance v rad / H 0 |
(120 ± 8) x 10 6 ly (36.8 ± 2.6) Mpc |
| history | |
| discovery | Ormond Stone |
| Discovery date | 1886 |
| Catalog names | |
| NGC 3208 • PGC 30180 • ESO 500-025 • MCG -04-25-003 • 2MASX J10194128-2548532 • | |
NGC 3208 is a barred spiral galaxy of the Hubble type SBc in the constellation Aquarius. It is estimated to be 120 million light years from the Milky Way .
The property was discovered by Ormond Stone in 1886 .