NGC 3215
| Galaxy NGC 3215 |
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| SDSS image of NGC 3215 (r.) & NGC 3212 (l.) | |
| AladinLite | |
| Constellation | Dragon |
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Position equinox : J2000.0 , epoch : J2000.0 |
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| Right ascension | 10 h 28 m 40.6 s |
| declination | + 79 ° 48 ′ 47 ″ |
| Appearance | |
| Morphological type | S? |
| Brightness (visual) | 13.2 mag |
| Brightness (B-band) | 14.0 mag |
| Angular expansion | 1.1 ′ × 1 ′ |
| Position angle | 52 ° |
| Surface brightness | 13.2 mag / arcmin² |
| Physical data | |
| Redshift | 0.031582 +/- 0.000153 |
| Radial velocity | 9468 +/- 46 km / s |
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Stroke distance v rad / H 0 |
(430 ± 30) · 10 6 ly (131.7 ± 9.2) Mpc |
| history | |
| discovery | Wilhelm Herschel |
| Discovery date | September 26, 1802 |
| Catalog names | |
| NGC 3212 • UGC 5659 • PGC 30840 • CGCG 350-055 / 351-024 • MCG + 13-08-022 • 2MASX J10284047 + 7948470 • Arp 181 • VV 319 • GC 2079 • H III 981 • | |
NGC 3212 is a spiral galaxy in the constellation Draco that interacts with the galaxy NGC 3212 and forms the galaxy pair Arp 181 . It is about 430 million light years from the Milky Way . Halton Arp organized his catalog of unusual galaxies into groups according to purely morphological criteria. This galaxy belongs to the class of narrow filament galaxies .
The object was discovered by William Herschel on September 26, 1802 .
Web links
literature
- Jeff Kanipe and Dennis Webb: The Arp Atlas of Peculiar Galaxies - A Chronicle and Observer's Guide , Richmond 2006, ISBN 978-0-943396-76-7