NGC 3404
| Galaxy NGC 3404 / IC 2609 |
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| AladinLite | |
| Constellation | Water snake |
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Position equinox : J2000.0 , epoch : J2000.0 |
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| Right ascension | 10 h 50 m 18.0 s |
| declination | -12 ° 06 ′ 31 ″ |
| Appearance | |
| Morphological type | SBab? / sp |
| Brightness (visual) | 13.2 mag |
| Brightness (B-band) | 14.0 mag |
| Angular expansion | 2.1 ′ × 0.5 ′ |
| Position angle | 84 ° |
| Surface brightness | 13.1 mag / arcmin² |
| Physical data | |
| Redshift | 0.015364 ± 0.000020 |
| Radial velocity | 4606 ± 6 km / s |
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Stroke distance v rad / H 0 |
(198 ± 14) · 10 6 ly (60.8 ± 4.3) Mpc |
| history | |
| discovery | Andrew A. Common |
| Discovery date | 1880 |
| Catalog names | |
| NGC 3404 • IC 2609 • PGC 32466 • MCG -02-28-011 • IRAS 10477-1150 • 2MASX J10501799-1206316 • GALEX ASC J105017.97-120630.7 • LDCE 756 NED002 | |
NGC 3404 = IC 2609 is a bar-spiral galaxy of the Hubble type SBab in the constellation Water Snake in the southern sky . It is estimated to be 198 million light years from the Milky Way and about 125,000 light years in diameter.
The galaxies NGC 3402 , NGC 3421 , NGC 3422 , IC 652 are located in the same area of the sky .
The supernova SN 2008bt ( type Ia ) and the SN candidate NAME PS 15afa (type II?) Were observed here.
The object was discovered in 1880 by the British astronomer Andrew Ainslie Common .