NGC 3427
| Galaxy NGC 3427 |
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| SDSS recording | |
| AladinLite | |
| Constellation | lion |
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Position equinox : J2000.0 , epoch : J2000.0 |
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| Right ascension | 10 h 51 m 26.3 s |
| declination | + 08 ° 17 ′ 55 ″ |
| Appearance | |
| Morphological type | S0 / a / LINER |
| Brightness (visual) | 13.2 mag |
| Brightness (B-band) | 14.1 mag |
| Angular expansion | 1.1 '× 0.5' |
| Position angle | 77 ° |
| Surface brightness | 12.4 mag / arcmin² |
| Physical data | |
| Redshift | 0.021688 ± 0.000170 |
| Radial velocity | 6502 ± 51 km / s |
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Stroke distance v rad / H 0 |
(286 ± 20) x 10 6 ly (87.6 ± 6.2) Mpc |
| history | |
| discovery | Ernst WL Temple |
| Discovery date | 1877 |
| Catalog names | |
| NGC 3427 • UGC 5966 • PGC 32559 • CGCG 066-043 • MCG + 02-28-020 • 2MASX J10512633 + 0817554 • GALEX ASC J105126.20 + 081756.5 • LDCE 758 NED002 | |
NGC 3427 is a lenticular galaxy with an active nucleus of the Hubble type S0-a and the constellation Leo on the ecliptic . It is estimated to be 286 million light years from the Milky Way and about 95,000 light years in diameter.
In the same area of the sky are u. a. the galaxies NGC 3388 , NGC 3417 , NGC 3436 , NGC 3439 .
The object was discovered in 1877 by Ernst Wilhelm Leberecht Tempel .