NGC 3304
| Galaxy NGC 3304 |
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| SDSS recording | |
| AladinLite | |
| Constellation | Little lion |
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Position equinox : J2000.0 , epoch : J2000.0 |
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| Right ascension | 10 h 37 m 37.9 s |
| declination | + 37 ° 27 ′ 20 ″ |
| Appearance | |
| Morphological type | SB (s) a? |
| Brightness (visual) | 13.8 mag |
| Brightness (B-band) | 14.7 mag |
| Angular expansion | 1.7 ′ × 0.6 ′ |
| Position angle | 158 ° |
| Surface brightness | 13.7 mag / arcmin² |
| Physical data | |
| Redshift | 0.023003 +/- 0.000110 |
| Radial velocity | 6896 +/- 33 km / s |
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Stroke distance v rad / H 0 |
(308 ± 22) x 10 6 ly (94.4 ± 6.6) Mpc |
| history | |
| discovery | William Herschel |
| Discovery date | March 17, 1787 |
| Catalog names | |
| NGC 3304 • UGC 5777 • PGC 31572 • CGCG 183-032 • MCG + 06-23-026 • IRAS F10347 + 3742 • 2MASX J10373786 + 3727204 • GC 2154 • H III 615 • h 729 • LDCE 0750 NED001 | |
NGC 3304 is a bar-spiral galaxy of the Hubble type SBa in the constellation Little Leo in the northern sky . It is estimated to be 308 million light years away from the Milky Way and has a diameter of about 160,000 ly.
In the same area of the sky are the galaxies NGC 3294 and NGC 3334 .
The object was discovered by William Herschel on March 17, 1787 .