NGC 3288
| Galaxy NGC 3288 |
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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 25.7 s |
| declination | + 58 ° 33 ′ 22 ″ |
| Appearance | |
| Morphological type | SABbc |
| Brightness (visual) | 14.1 mag |
| Brightness (B-band) | 14.9 mag |
| Angular expansion | 0.9 ′ × 0.7 ′ |
| Position angle | 175 ° |
| Surface brightness | 13.4 mag / arcmin² |
| Physical data | |
| Redshift | 0.027175 +/- 0.000157 |
| Radial velocity | 8147 +/- 47 km / s |
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Stroke distance v rad / H 0 |
(367 ± 26) · 10 6 ly (112.6 ± 7.9) Mpc |
| history | |
| discovery | Wilhelm Herschel |
| Discovery date | April 9, 1793 |
| Catalog names | |
| NGC 3288 • UGC 5752 • PGC 31446 • CGCG 290-057 • MCG + 10-15-114 • 2MASX J10362571 + 5833224 • GC 2142 • H III 918 • h 723 • | |
NGC 3288 is a bar-spiral galaxy with extensive star formation regions of the Hubble-type SBbc in the constellation Great Bear. It is estimated to be 367 million light years from the Milky Way and about 30,000 light years in diameter.
Together with NGC 3286, it forms the gravitationally bound galaxy pair KPG 239 .
The object was discovered on April 9, 1793 by Wilhelm Herschel .