NGC 3286
| Galaxy NGC 3286 / NGC 3284 |
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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 36 m 21.2 s |
| declination | + 58 ° 37 ′ 13 ″ |
| Appearance | |
| Morphological type | E? |
| Brightness (visual) | 13.6 mag |
| Brightness (B-band) | 14.6 mag |
| Angular expansion | 0.9 ′ × 0.6 ′ |
| Position angle | 88 ° |
| Surface brightness | 13.0 mag / arcmin² |
| Physical data | |
| Redshift | 0.026999 ± 0.000157 |
| Radial velocity | 8094 ± 47 km / s |
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Stroke distance v rad / H 0 |
(365 ± 26) x 10 6 ly (111.9 ± 7.9) Mpc |
| history | |
| discovery | Wilhelm Herschel |
| Discovery date | 8/9 April 1793 |
| Catalog names | |
| NGC 3284/3286 • PGC 31433 • CGCG 290-056 • MCG + 10-15-112 • 2MASX J10362128 + 5837124 • GC 2138/2140 • H III 912 / III 917 • h 722 • GALEXASC J103621.33 + 583712.7 • NVSS J103621 +583712 • WISEA J103621.24 + 583712.6 | |
NGC 3286 = NGC 3284 is an elliptical galaxy of Hubble type E in the constellation Ursa Major at the northern sky . It is estimated to be 365 million light years from the Milky Way and about 95,000 light years in diameter.
Together with NGC 3288, it forms the gravitationally bound galaxy pair KPG 239 .
The object was discovered by Wilhelm Herschel on April 8, 1793 .