NGC 3414
| Galaxy NGC 3414 |
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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 51 m 16.2 s |
| declination | + 27 ° 58 ′ 30 ″ |
| Appearance | |
| Morphological type | S0 pec / LINER |
| Brightness (visual) | 10.9 likes |
| Brightness (B-band) | 11.9 likes |
| Angular expansion | 3.5 ′ × 2.6 ′ |
| Position angle | 25 ° |
| Surface brightness | 13.1 mag / arcmin² |
| Physical data | |
| Affiliation |
NGC-3504 group , LGG 227 ( Leo II group ) |
| Redshift | 0.004903 ± 0.000017 |
| Radial velocity | (1470 ± 5) km / s |
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Stroke distance v rad / H 0 |
(64 ± 5) · 10 6 ly (19.6 ± 1.4) Mpc |
| diameter | 80,000 ly |
| history | |
| discovery | William Herschel |
| Discovery date | April 11, 1785 |
| Catalog names | |
| NGC 3414 • UGC 5959 • PGC 32533 • CGCG 155-029 • MCG + 05-26-021 • IRAS F10485 + 2814 • 2MASX J10511624 + 2758298 • Arp 162 • GC 2227 • H II 362 • h 773 • PRC C-35 | |
NGC 3414 = Arp 162 is a lenticular galaxy with an active nucleus of the Hubble type SB0 in the constellation Leo Minor in the northern sky . It is estimated to be 64 million light years from the Milky Way and about 80,000 light years in diameter.
Halton Arp organized his catalog of unusual galaxies into groups according to purely morphological criteria. This galaxy belongs to the class of diffuse filament galaxies . In the same area of the sky are u. a. the galaxies NGC 3380 , NGC 3400 , NGC 3418 .
The object was discovered on April 11, 1785 by William Herschel .
Web links
literature
- Jeff Kanipe and Dennis Webb: The Arp Atlas of Peculiar Galaxies - A Chronicle and Observer's Guide , Richmond 2006, ISBN 978-0-943396-76-7