NGC 3478
| Galaxy NGC 3478 |
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| SDSS recording | |
| AladinLite | |
| Constellation | Big Bear |
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Position equinox : J2000.0 , epoch : J2000.0 |
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| Right ascension | 10 h 59 m 27.3 s |
| declination | + 46 ° 07 ′ 21 ″ |
| Appearance | |
| Morphological type | SB (rs) bc |
| Brightness (visual) | 12.7 mag |
| Brightness (B-band) | 13.5 likes |
| Angular expansion | 2.6 ′ × 1.2 ′ |
| Position angle | 132 ° |
| Surface brightness | 13.8 mag / arcmin² |
| Physical data | |
| Redshift | 0.022239 ± 0.000033 |
| Radial velocity | (6667 ± 10) km / s |
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Stroke distance v rad / H 0 |
(299 ± 21) · 10 6 ly (91.8 ± 6.4) Mpc |
| history | |
| discovery | William Herschel |
| Discovery date | February 5, 1788 |
| Catalog names | |
| NGC 3478 • UGC 6069 • PGC 33101 • CGCG 241-051 • MCG + 08-20-059 • IRAS 10565 + 4623 • 2MASX J10592591 + 4607252 • GC 2269 • H III 705 • h 801 • LDCE 0771 NED003 | |
NGC 3478 is a barred spiral galaxy of the Hubble type SBbc in the constellation Great Bear in the northern sky . It is estimated to be 299 million light years from the Milky Way .
The object was discovered by Wilhelm Herschel on February 5, 1788 .