NGC 3344
| Galaxy NGC 3344 |
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| Taken with the 81 cm reflecting telescope of the Mount Lemmon Observatory | |
| AladinLite | |
| Constellation | Little lion |
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Position equinox : J2000.0 , epoch : J2000.0 |
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| Right ascension | 10 h 43 m 31.1 s |
| declination | + 24 ° 55 ′ 20 ″ |
| Appearance | |
| Morphological type | (R) SAB (r) bc / HII |
| Brightness (visual) | 9.7 likes |
| Brightness (B-band) | 10.5 mag |
| Angular expansion | 7.1 ′ × 6.5 ′ |
| Position angle | 18 ° |
| Surface brightness | 13.7 mag / arcmin² |
| Physical data | |
| Affiliation | isolated |
| Redshift | 0.001935 ± 0.000003 |
| Radial velocity | (580 ± 1) km / s |
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Stroke distance v rad / H 0 |
(24 ± 2) x 10 6 ly (7.21 ± 0.51) Mpc |
| diameter | 30,000 ly |
| history | |
| discovery | Wilhelm Herschel |
| Discovery date | April 6, 1785 |
| Catalog names | |
| NGC 3344 • UGC 5840 • PGC 31968 • CGCG 124-060 • MCG + 04-25-046 • IRAS 10407 + 2511 • 2MASX J10433114 + 2455199 • GC 2178 • H I 81 • h 739 • HIPASS J1043 + 24 • LDCE 743 NED006 • KIG 435 | |
NGC 3344 is a bar-spiral galaxy with extensive star formation regions of the Hubble type SBbc in the constellation Little Leo in the northern sky . It is estimated to be 24 million light years away from the Milky Way and has a diameter of around 55,000 ly. The galaxy has an angular extent of 7.2 × 6.9 arc minutes and an apparent magnitude of 9.7 mag.
The Type Ic supernova SN 2012fh was observed here.
The object was discovered on April 6, 1785 by the German-British astronomer Wilhelm Herschel .
High-resolution image of the central area from the Hubble Space Telescope
Ultraviolet image of NGC 3344: the inner spiral arms are so close together that it is difficult to see them.
Web links
Commons : NGC 3344 - Album containing pictures, videos and audio files
- SIMBAD Astronomical Database
- GoBlack
- astronews.com: Spiral galaxy in Little Lion February 16, 2018