NGC 3422
| Galaxy NGC 3422 |
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| AladinLite | |
| Constellation | cups |
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Position equinox : J2000.0 , epoch : J2000.0 |
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| Right ascension | 10 h 51 m 17.3 s |
| declination | -12 ° 24 ′ 09 ″ |
| Appearance | |
| Morphological type | S0 +? / sp |
| Brightness (visual) | 14.1 mag |
| Brightness (B-band) | 15.0 mag |
| Angular expansion | 1.3 ′ × 0.3 ′ |
| Position angle | 54 ° |
| Surface brightness | 13.0 mag / arcmin² |
| Physical data | |
| Redshift | 0.014450 ± 0.000110 |
| Radial velocity | 4332 ± 33 km / s |
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Stroke distance v rad / H 0 |
(186 ± 13) x 10 6 ly (57.0 ± 4.0) Mpc |
| history | |
| discovery | Andrew A. Common |
| Discovery date | 1880 |
| Catalog names | |
| NGC 3422 • PGC 32534 • MCG -02-28-015 • 2MASX J10511732-1224086 • LDCE 756 NED006 | |
NGC 3422 is a lenticular galaxy of the Hubble type S0 / a in the constellation Becher in the southern sky . It is estimated to be 186 million light years from the Milky Way and about 70,000 light years across.
The galaxies NGC 3402 , NGC 3404 , NGC 3421 , IC 647 are located in the same area of the sky .
The object was discovered in 1880 by the British astronomer Andrew Ainslie Common .