NGC 3400
| Galaxy NGC 3400 |
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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 50 m 45.5 s |
| declination | + 28 ° 28 ′ 09 ″ |
| Appearance | |
| Morphological type | SB (s) a |
| Brightness (visual) | 13.4 mag |
| Brightness (B-band) | 14.3 mag |
| Angular expansion | 1.1 ′ × 0.7 ′ |
| Position angle | 100 ° |
| Surface brightness | 13.0 mag / arcmin² |
| Physical data | |
| Affiliation | LGG 227 |
| Redshift | 0.004807 ± 0.000017 |
| Radial velocity | (1441 ± 5) km / s |
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Stroke distance v rad / H 0 |
(63 ± 4) · 10 6 ly (19.2 ± 1.3) Mpc |
| history | |
| discovery | Wilhelm Herschel |
| Discovery date | April 11, 1785 |
| Catalog names | |
| NGC 3400 • UGC 5949 • PGC 32499 • CGCG 155-025 • MCG + 05-26-020 • 2MASX J10504550 + 2828081 • GC 2220 • H II 361 • h 768 • LDCE 0763 NED002 | |
NGC 3400 is a barred spiral galaxy of the Hubble type SBa in the constellation Little Leo in the northern sky . It is an estimated 63 million light years from the Milky Way .
The object was discovered on April 11, 1785 by the astronomer Wilhelm Herschel .
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