NGC 3426

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Galaxy
NGC 3426
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SDSS recording
SDSS recording
AladinLite
Constellation lion
Position
equinoxJ2000.0 , epoch : J2000.0
Right ascension 10 h 51 m 41.7 s
declination + 18 ° 28 ′ 51 ″
Appearance
Morphological type S?  
Brightness  (visual) 13.2 mag
Brightness  (B-band) 14.0 mag
Angular expansion 1.1 ′ × 0.8 ′
Position angle 114 °
Surface brightness 12.9 mag / arcmin²
Physical data
Redshift 0.020414 ± 0.000143  
Radial velocity (6120 ± 43) km / s  
Stroke distance
v rad  / H 0
(270 ± 19)  ·  10 6  ly
(82.8 ± 5.8)  Mpc 
history
discovery Lewis Swift
Discovery date March 23, 1887
Catalog names
NGC  3426 • UGC  5975 • PGC  32577 • CGCG  095-046 • MCG  + 03-28-020 • 2MASX  J10514174 + 1828517 •

NGC 3426 is a galaxy of Hubble type S in the constellation Leo the northern sky . It is estimated to be 270 million light years from the Milky Way .

The object was discovered by Lewis Swift on March 23, 1887 .

Web links

Commons : NGC 3426  - collection of images, videos, and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. a b c d NASA / IPAC Extragalactic Database
  2. a b c d e NGC 3426
  3. Seligman