NGC 3338
| Galaxy NGC 3338 |
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| Taken with the 81 cm reflecting telescope of the Mount Lemmon Observatory . | |
| AladinLite | |
| Constellation | lion |
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Position equinox : J2000.0 , epoch : J2000.0 |
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| Right ascension | 10 h 42 m 07.6 s |
| declination | + 13 ° 44 ′ 49 ″ |
| Appearance | |
| Morphological type | SA (s) c / Seyfert |
| Brightness (visual) | 10.9 likes |
| Brightness (B-band) | 11.6 mag |
| Angular expansion | 5.7 ′ × 3.4 ′ |
| Position angle | 100 ° |
| Surface brightness | 14.0 mag / arcmin² |
| Physical data | |
| Affiliation | NGC 3338 group Leo II group LGG 214 |
| Redshift | 0.004343 ± 0.000003 |
| Radial velocity | 1302 ± 1 km / s |
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Stroke distance v rad / H 0 |
(54 ± 4) · 10 6 ly (16.5 ± 1.2) Mpc |
| history | |
| discovery | Wilhelm Herschel |
| Discovery date | March 19, 1784 |
| Catalog names | |
| NGC 3338 • UGC 5826 • PGC 31883 • CGCG 065-087 • MCG + 02-27-041 • IRAS 10394 + 1400 • 2MASX J10420754 + 1344489 • GC 2175 • H II 77 • h 737 • HIPASS J1042 + 13 • LDCE 778 NED003 | |
NGC 3338 is a spiral galaxy with an active nucleus of the Hubble-type Sc in the constellation Leo on the ecliptic . It is estimated to be 54 million light years from the Milky Way and about 100,000 light years across. The galaxy NGC 3357 is located in the same area of the sky .
The object was discovered on March 19, 1784 by the German-British astronomer Wilhelm Herschel .
High-resolution Hubble image of the center of NGC 3338
Ultraviolet recording using GALEX
Web links
Commons : NGC 3338 - collection of images, videos, and audio files
- SIMBAD Astronomical Database
- Caelum Observatory
- NOAO
- Spectrum .de: labeled image of the surroundings