NGC 3359
| Galaxy NGC 3359 |
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| Taken through the 81 cm reflecting telescope of the Mount Lemmon Observatory | |
| AladinLite | |
| Constellation | Big Bear |
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Position equinox : J2000.0 , epoch : J2000.0 |
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| 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 |
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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