NGC 3359

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Galaxy
NGC 3359
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Taken through the 81 cm reflecting telescope of the Mount Lemmon Observatory
Taken through the 81 cm reflecting telescope of the Mount Lemmon Observatory
AladinLite
Constellation Big Bear
Position
equinoxJ2000.0 , epoch : J2000.0
Right ascension 10 h 46 m 36.8 s
declination + 63 ° 13 ′ 25 ″
Appearance
Morphological type SB (rs) c / HII  
Brightness  (visual) 10.3 mag
Brightness  (B-band) 11.0 mag
Angular expansion 7.2 ′ × 4.4 ′
Position angle 170 °
Surface brightness 13.9 mag / arcmin²
Physical data
Redshift 0.003382 ± 0.000004  
Radial velocity (1014 ± 1) km / s  
Stroke distance
v rad  / H 0
(49 ± 4)  ·  10 6  ly
(15.1 ± 1.1)  Mpc 
history
discovery William Herschel
Discovery date November 28, 1793
Catalog names
NGC  3359 • UGC  5873 • PGC  32183 • CGCG  313-033 • MCG  + 11-13-037 • IRAS  10433 + 6329 • 2MASX  J10463684 + 6313251 • GC  2189 • H  V 52 • h  745 • Kara 442

NGC 3359 is a bar-spiral galaxy with extensive star formation regions of the Hubble type SBc in the constellation Ursa Major. It is estimated to be 49 million light years from the Milky Way and about 100,000 light years in diameter.

The type II supernova SN 1985H was observed here.

The object was discovered on November 28, 1793 by William Herschel using an 18.7 inch reflector .

Ultraviolet image from GALEX

Individual evidence

  1. a b c d NASA / IPAC EXTRAGALACTIC DATABASE
  2. a b c d e f SEDS : NGC 3359
  3. Simbad
  4. Seligman