NGC 3475

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Galaxy
NGC 3475
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SDSS recording
SDSS recording
AladinLite
Constellation lion
Position
equinoxJ2000.0 , epoch : J2000.0
Right ascension 10 h 58 m 25.2 s
declination + 24 ° 13 ′ 35 ″
Appearance
Morphological type Sa / LINER  
Brightness  (visual) 13.4 mag
Brightness  (B-band) 14.3 mag
Angular expansion 1.7 ′ × 1.1 ′
Position angle 65 °
Surface brightness 13.9 mag / arcmin²
Physical data
Redshift 0.021452 ± 0.000033  
Radial velocity (6431 ± 10) km / s  
Stroke distance
v rad  / H 0
(285 ± 20)  x  10 6  ly
(87.4 ± 6.1)  Mpc 
history
discovery Wilhelm Herschel
Discovery date April 10, 1785
Catalog names
NGC  3475 • UGC  6058 • PGC  33012 • CGCG  125-017 • MCG  + 04-26-022 • 2MASX  J10582517 + 2413351 • GC  2268 • H  III 332 • h  800 • LDCE 0768 NED001

NGC 3475 is a spiral galaxy of the Hubble type Sa with an active galaxy core in the constellation Leo on the ecliptic . It is estimated to be 285 million light years from the Milky Way .

The object was discovered by Wilhelm Herschel on April 10, 1785 .

Web links

Commons : NGC 3475  - collection of images, videos, and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. a b c d NASA / IPAC EXTRAGALACTIC DATABASE
  2. a b c d e SEDS : NGC 3475
  3. Seligman